In other words, the patient was ill due to his time in the institution. I find this interesting because without a more humane telling of the story by Grob, it is difficult to assess whether the patients' psychosis worsened overall with the length of their stay in the institution and whether, because of this, this influenced policies or practice methods? I believe it would be similar to what they are experiencing now with the orphans of Romania in the 1980s, who grew up in institutions with minimal and basic human contact and are now mostly homeless and unable to function in society or prisoners in prison who have spent years behind bars and then are released into the general population. History has shown that people have difficulty reintegrating into the general population. As a result, by the 1980s one-third of the homeless population in the United States was said to be severely mentally ill. (PBS, "Timeline: Treatments for the Mind