Citical care

Through our own experience and that of others authors - surgeons, mathematicians, philosophers - we consider methods, reality ant future of communication and transmission in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Open to criticism, communication is always revocable; registered in the future, transmission is not so easy to challenge. Subjects and means of communication and transmission - language and pictures - are discussed, provided that to allow citicism and to be closed to self-love. A matter of course is that truth must rise above self-vanity...

Although considerable progress was made as far as therapy and individual rights of the patients are concerned today the psychiatric hospital is more than ever the butt of open citicism. One of the reasons for that is the odium of involuntarity and authority surrounding it. It is based on the ill-fame and dubious reputation of the nineteenth century "asylum". The problem of authority concerns today's hospitals as much as ever. How the hospital is run depends naturally in the first place on the personality of it's director his views on authority, as much as on his understanding and ability to handle the intensive dynamic processes in the institution...

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