This chapter examines the nature of community psychiatry as it is taking shape. It considers
our continuing uncertainty about mental illness which is manifested in a widening of its …

THE PROPOSAL to add community psychiatry to the ever-widening list of psychiatric
specialties deserves a critical examination. Thus, my purpose in this paper is fourfold. First, I …

HISTORY of psychiatry is essentially the history of humanism. Every time the humanistic
spirit has arisen, important contributions have been made to psychiatry, and treatment of the …

Throughout the past decade, an important change in focus has been taking place among the
various professions concerned with mental health. Much thought and energy have been …

The author, from a background of Canadian, British and European psychiatry, reviews the
development of community psychiatry in the evolution of psychiatry in the United States. The …

In the past two decades there have been significant changes in attitudes among the mental
health professionals as well as the consumers of mental health services. The move from the …

I SHOULD SAY AT THE OUTSET that my concern with clinical aspects relates solely to the
quality, equity, and effectiveness of our new therapeutic programs and services in …

By choice and by social pressure, psychiatry, since World War II, has beenimpelledto lead
in, andcompelledto share in, a dispersal of responsibility for the treatment and prevention of …

This paper has attempted a panoramic view of an immensely complex aspect of psychiatry,
an aspect so tumultuous as to over-flow the bounds of psychiatry as a specialty of medicine …

The broad dimensions of community mental health pose a distinct challenge for
psychiatrists. As I review and interpret the myriad of activities over the past decade which …