Something happened on the revolutionary road that stalled the process, but recent events
indi-cate that this is an opportune time to regroup and take stock once again. Like other …

Both are dedicated, determined, and en-lightened people. The climate in the White House is
in sharp contrast to the antipsychiatric attitudes that characterized the previous admin …

Be his stuff begged, borrowed, or stolen, or of his own domestic manufacture, he is an
uncommon man. Swear he is a humbug-then he is no common humbug. The truth is that we …

American psychiatrists, in the war year of 1944, have occasion to review past developments
in their field of endeavor, to appraise the present status of their work, and to project lines of …

The history of psychiatry is complex, reflecting diverse origins in mythology, cult beliefs,
astrology, early medicine, law religion, philosophy, and politics. This complexity has …

The new nation went through several stages which are well-known and which need only to
be mentioned here: the colonial period; the achievement of independence and the …

By MILTON GREENBLATT, MD| is not the function of this section to downgrade the
accomplishments of biologic psychiatry or to minimize the importance of …

While it is usually appropriate in presuming to look at the future to attempt to establish
orientation by at least a glance at the past, if only so that a progression and sequence may …

SSSSt At the end of World War II, American psychiatrists launched a searching examination
of the nature and organization of their specialty. At times the intensity of the discussions …

This is the right time for this new book, a social history of psychiatry that examines changing
attitudes toward mental illness, the contributors to the changes, and the advances in clinical …