The Psychiatry of Revolving Doors

Revolving door psychiatry is a special type of treatment for mental illness that involves frequent hospitalizations of patients due to their relapses of the disease. The reason for this approach is the invention and widespread use of drugs that promote rapid and unstable remissions. Such medications lead to the patient being discharged from the hospital, as it is believed that he has successfully completed the course of treatment and is ready to return to normal life. However, patients often relapse and end up in a new hospital again and again, rotating between hospital and outpatient care. This can continue indefinitely, since each new hospitalization does not bring full recovery, but only a temporary effect. Moreover, with new discharges from the hospital, there is a constant increase in the period of relapse, which complicates the process of treating patients in the psychiatric services industry.

This approach to treating mentally ill patients can be disastrous, since each new case may be the last in the patient’s life. It often turns out that the patient is in such

"Revolving door psychiatry" is a phenomenon in psychiatry in which patients are frequently readmitted to the hospital due to relapses of their mental illnesses. This approach to treatment involves the use of new drugs aimed at rapidly achieving unstable and transient conditions, such as risperidone, olanzapine, ziprasidol and clozapine. These medications can reduce the time a patient stays in hospital without the risk of a significant deterioration in his condition. However, this practice results in many patients experiencing a relapse of their disease soon after discharge from hospital, requiring readmission and, sometimes