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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes† This paper was written for the Conference on Social and Environmental Factors in Psychiatric Hospitals held at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital in 1955. The research on which it is based was made possible by contributions from The Commonwealth Fund, United States Public Health Service, and The Abe Belsky Fund. Their help is hereby gratefully acknowledged.The paper will appear, in substantially the same form, in a book entitled The Patient and the Mental Hospital: Contributions of Research in the Sciences of Social Behavior, edited by Milton Greenblatt, Daniel J. Levinson, and Richard H. Williams, to be published in 1957 by The Free Press, Glencoe, Ill. Copyright by The Free Press.