Abstract
This paper attempts to study the transition that has taken place in the system of care for the mentally ill persons from institutional to community care, It focuses mainly on the process of deinstitutionalization with particular reference to the implications of this process for the care of psychiatric patients, The purpose is to draw lessons from the situation of the west so as to help avoid some of the pitfalls involved in the transition taking place in the field of psychiatric care in our country.

Zahid Javed. (2004) DE-INSTITUTIONAUZING PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS , Journal of Research ( Humanities), Vol XL, Issue 1.
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