The Eclipse of the State Mental Hospital: Policy, Stigma, and Organization. By George W. Dowdall (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. xiv plus 262pp. $21.95/paperback)

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 490-491
Author(s):  
A. Horwitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
New York State ◽  
The State ◽  
State University ◽  
State Mental Hospital ◽  
Hospital Policy ◽  
York State ◽  
State Mental

Things Get Rolling

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Edward Shorter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
York State ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The take-off of psychopharmacology in the mental-hospital world began in the vast asylum system of New York State in the early 1950s. Henry Brill ordered the state system to introduce chlorpromazine in 1955, which led to the first decrease in the census of the state asylum system in peacetime. Sidney Merlis and Herman Denber implemented chlorpromazine in their hospitals and, with Brill, began a series of publications on the drugs and their efficacy. Pharmacologist and psychiatrist Joel Elkes established the first department of experimental psychiatry in the world in 1951 at the University of Birmingham in England. Finally, the chapter examiunes the historical heft of the National Institute of Mental Health, which in 1953 opened the “intramural” (in-house) research program where much of the research in psychopharmacology done in the United States has occurred.

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