Description
Book SynopsisThis volume summarizes the significant events and processes of the half-century following World War II. Most of this history is written by clinicians who were central figures in it.
Trade ReviewIntended to follow in the footsteps of the centennial history of psychiatry, published in 1944, this book is fittingly edited by Roy Menninger, a scion of a family that made important contributions to the story of psychiatry and Jon Nemiah, a distinguished emeritus editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, which recorded so much of what is retold here.
* The New England Journal of Medicine *
In this book, a monumental achievement, they define the evolution of American psychiatry from [World War II] to 1994. . . . This book will become the definitive classic in the study of American psychiatry.
* READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary of Mental Health *
For its comprehensive, balanced coverage, the volume is something of a tour de force, certainly an essential manual for any student of the history of American Psychiatry.
* Canadian Bulletin of Medical History *
Table of ContentsContributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: The Experience and Lessons of War
Chapter 1. Military Psychiatry Since World War II
Chapter 2. War, Peace, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 3. Silver Linings in the Clouds of War: A Five-Decade Retrospective
Part II: Postwar Growth of Clinical Psychiatry
Chapter 4. American Psychoanalysis Since World War II
Chapter 5. The Evolving Role of the Psychiatrist From the Perspective of Psychotherapy
Chapter 6. Psychiatric Education After World War II
Chapter 7. Psyche and Soma: Struggles to Close the Gap
Chapter 8. Postwar Psychiatry: Personal Observations
Part III: Public Attitudes, Public Perceptions, and Public Policy
Chapter 9. The National Institute of Mental Health: Its Influence on Psychiatry and the Nation's Mental Health
Chapter 10. Mental Health Policy in Late Twentieth-Century America
Chapter 11. Deinstitutionalization and Public Policy
Chapter 13. The Consumer Movement
Chapter 14. The Cultural Impact of Psychiatry: The Question of Regressive Effects
Chapter 15. Managed Care and Other Economic Constraints
Part IV: The Rise of Scientific Empiricism
Chapter 16. American Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, 1944–1994
Chapter 17. Functional Psychoses and the Conceptualization of Mental Illness
Chapter 18. Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders
Part V: Differentiation and Specialization
Chapter 19. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Comes of Age, 1944–1994
Chapter 20. A Brief History of Geriatric Psychiatry in the United States, 1944–1994
Chapter 21. Addiction Psychiatry: The 50 Years Following World War II
Chapter 22. Forensic Psychiatry After World War II
Part VI: Principles and People 543
Chapter 23. Ethics in the American Psychiatric Association After World War II
Chapter 24. Women Psychiatrists in American Postwar Psychiatry
Chapter 25. Minorities and Mental Health
Index
