Dr. Elizabeth Faust, member oi the staff of the East Louisiana State hospital, Friday advocated passage by the state Legislateure of an appropriation "which would eventually make possible staffing with competent psychiatrists."
"I understand that next week the Louisiana Legislature will be asked to approve an appropriation for such a training program," added the psysician, aj featured speaker at the closing session of the Mental Health Ash sembly sponsored by the Louisiana Association for Mental Health.
Dr. Faust, who addressed the association at the Louisiana State university medical scKool, said if the appropriation is passed, mental hospitals will no longer be prisons, but *'havens and refuge 2 where patients might have to b< taken by force originally but t< which they would return frorr time to time voluntarily, certair that they will find there simple humand kindness and advanced psychiatric treatment." [PHOTO] THREE OF THE AUTHORITIES HEARD Friday at the closing session'oTthVMental"ifealtli Assembly are pictured with the session chairman, G. Kinsey Stewart (standing). They are (from left) Dr. Elizabeth Faust, member of the staff of the East Louisiana State hospital; Mrs. Henrietta DeWitt, Baltimore, Md., superintendent of social work for the Maryland department of mental health, and Dr. Fillmore Sanford, Washington, D. C, executive secretary of the American Psychological Association.
