Title
Issues in American psychiatry reflected in remarks of APA presidents, 1844-1994
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Psychiatry
Publication Date
1994-10-01
Document Type
Article
Subjects
History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Hospitals, Public; Humans; Psychiatry; Societies, Medical; United States
Disciplines
Health Services Research | Mental and Social Health | Psychiatric and Mental Health | Psychiatry | Psychiatry and Psychology
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The author reviewed the history of American psychiatry for the first 150 years of the American Psychiatric Association's existence (1844-1994) as reflected in remarks of the association's presidents.
METHODS: Presidential addresses or remarks from alternative sources were located for the 120 presidents who served the association between 1844 and 1994.
RESULTS: The presidents' remarks on six topics-psychiatric practice, etiology of mental illness, public mental hospitals, alternatives to state hospitals (deinstitutionalization), biologic treatments, and fiscal issues were sampled and arranged chronologically.
CONCLUSIONS: American psychiatry's history--its innovations, cyclical repetitions, and self-assessments-can be gleaned from this form of data. The presidents' remarks appear to refute the claim that organized American psychiatry has been negligent in criticizing itself.
Source
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1994 Oct;45(10):993-1004.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Hospital and community psychiatry
Related Resources
PubMed ID
7829055
Repository Citation
Geller, Jeffrey L., "Issues in American psychiatry reflected in remarks of APA presidents, 1844-1994" (1994). Systems and Psychosocial Advances Research Center Publications and Presentations. 175.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_cmhsr/175
