… mental health policy remains deficient. This article examines the … the Community Mental
Health Centers Act of 1963, tracing how an important shift in national policy toward the mentally …

… In the original law, Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) were to be constructed in a
manner that allowed for each center to be responsible for 75,000 – 200,000 people (Karger & …

… federal legislative history of the Community Mental Health Center (… The IFC was friendlier
than in 1963; over AMA objections, it … ” and a “third psychiatric revolution” notwithstanding, the …

… mental health services plan. This plan will be presented to selected Iowa mental health
personnel … of much of the history of American attitudes toward care of the mentally ill will become …

… movements in the history of American public mental health policy, … Kennedy’s Community
Mental Health Centers Act of 1963, … and adequate community mental health services for all …

… Kennedy successfully passed the Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which ordered …
Origins of the “third psychiatric revolution”: The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963…

… The McGaw Prize prompted us to think about the complex history and politics of the … concept
of community was framed in the Community Mental Health Centers Act (CMHCA) of 1963. …

… in the history of public psychiatry explain how health care reform is … Public psychiatrists
developed their identity as “community … the federal Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. …

… progress since the earliest days of modern history. … a Third Psychiatric Revolution, with
community mental health … the statements of President Kennedy in 1963 and the charge to the new …

… 1963, more than a century later, when President Kennedy spoke in favor of the Community
Mental Health Center … at other key points in the history of American psychiatry. Our purpose in …