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deˌinstiˌtutionaliˈzation Chiefly N. Amer.
[f. de- II. 2 + institutionalization.]
The process or action of removing (a person) from an institution, such as a mental hospital, or from the effects of institutional life. Also deˌinstiˈtutionalized ppl. a. (in quot. 1967, deprived of the qualities of an institution).
[1955Lancet 31 Dec. 1393/2 The process of disinstitutionalisation is taking place in his own region.] 1967Listener 20 Apr. 518/3 Russell has never been academic; he has not been confined in a university, except for very short periods; and this gives him..a de-institutionalized setting, which enables him to speak as a human being to great numbers of persons. 1974Science 2 Aug. 423/2 A major current trend is toward deinstitutionalization. People who are down on jails believe that the institutional setting is too dehumanizing for any meaningful rehabilitation to take place. 1978Sci. Amer. Feb. 46/3 It is not too soon to review the issues raised by this aspect of the community mental health movement and to consider how such a well-intentioned reform as deinstitutionalization could have created so many problems. 1979Time 2 Apr. 45/2 Under the Community Mental Health Center Act of 1963, 647 local centers have been set up to treat such ‘deinstitutionalized’ patients. 1980Spokane (Washington) Daily Chron. 30 Apr. 4 The ‘human rights’ faction..decided that criminals and mental patients released to roam the streets should be recognized as persons who are the beneficiaries of deinstitutionalization. 1984Listener 3 May 3/3 They attended a conference on de-institutionalisation. |