Divergences in American psychiatry during the Depression: Somatic psychiatry, community mental hygiene, and social reconstruction

2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Pols
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
American Psychiatry

The Fourteenth Maudsley Lecture: British Influences in Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene

1933 ◽  
Vol 79 (326) ◽  
pp. 435-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
British Science ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Deep Sense

It was with a deep sense of responsibility and of gratitude alike that I accepted the invitation to address you as your fourteenth Maudsley Lecturer; a sense of responsibility through the thought that, in a way, I come as a representative of American psychiatry; a sense of sincere gratitude for an opportunity to acknowledge a real personal indebtedness to British science and British medicine and British psychiatry, partly for what I received myself in the long years since my early post-graduate work in this country forty-three years ago, and partly for the influence British thought and work and practice has had upon certain developments, for which it is a pleasure to express our indebtedness and appreciation. Some of these relations and connections are little realized and little appreciated, and yet very illuminating and by no means only personal.

American Psychiatry and its Practical Bearings on the Application of Recent Local Government and Mental Treatment Legislation, Including a Description of the Author's Participation in the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene, Washington, D.C., May 5–10, 1930

1930 ◽  
Vol 76 (314) ◽  
pp. 456-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Lord
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
County Council ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Psychiatric Institutions ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Mental Treatment

Dr. Petrie's paper is mainly descriptive of American psychiatric institutions, and deals only briefly in its conclusion with his impressions of American psychiatry in its various fields. My paper, however, deals principally with the latter subject and avoids the former as much as possible. It is also my duty to report on my mission as the representative of the London County Council and of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association at the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene.

A Moral/Ethical History of American Psychiatry

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald N. Grob
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Mental Hygiene ◽  
The United States ◽  
Novel Therapies ◽  
World War ◽  
Severe Mental Disorders ◽  
Moral Treatment ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Fever Therapy ◽  
History Of

This article examines the moral/ethical dimensions of psychiatric practice in the United States. It begins with a historical overview of American psychiatry, from the establishment of mental hospitals and asylums to the emergence of institutionalization and the theory of moral treatment. It then turns to a discussion of nineteenth-century initiatives calling for an end to dual responsibility and for the state to assume sole responsibility for persons with severe mental disorders. It also looks at the rise of dynamic psychiatry in the early twentieth century, along with the mental hygiene movement and the introduction of novel therapies such as fever therapy, insulin, metrazol, lobotomy, psychosurgery, and electric shock therapies. Finally, the article considers the transformation of American psychiatry during and after World War II.

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