American Psychiatry After World War II (1944-1994) Hardcover - 2000
by Roy W. Menninger (Editor); John C. Nemiah (Editor)
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The history of psychiatry is complex, reflecting diverse origins in mythology, cult beliefs, astrology, early medicine, law religion, philosophy, and politics. This complexity has generated considerable debate and an increasing outflow of historical scholarship, ranging from the enthusiastic meliorism of pre-World War II histories, to the iconoclastic revisionism of the 1960s, to more focused studies, such as the history of asylums and the validity and efficacy of Freudian theory. This volume, intended as a successor to the centennial history of American psychiatry published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1944, 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.
In broad terms, the history of psychiatry after the war can be viewed as the story of a cycling sequence, shifting from a predominantly biological to a psychodynamic perspective and back again--all presumably en route to an ultimate view that is truly integrated--and interacting all the while with public perceptions, expectations, exasperations, and disappointments.
In six sections, Drs. Roy Menninger and John Nemiah and their colleagues cover both the continuities and the dramatic changes of this period. The first four sections of the book are roughly chronological. The first section focuses on the war and its impact on psychiatry; the second reviews postwar growth of the field (psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, psychiatric education, and psychosomatic medicine); the third recounts the rise of scientific empiricism (biological psychiatry and nosology); and the fourth discusses public attitudes and perceptions of public mental health policy, deinstitutionalization, antipsychiatry, the consumer movement, and managed care. The fifth section examines the development of specialization and differentiation, exemplified by child and adolescent psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, and forensic psychiatry. The concluding section examines ethics, and women and minorities in psychiatry.
Anyone interested in psychiatry will find this book a fascinating read.
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- Title American Psychiatry After World War II (1944-1994)
- Author Roy W. Menninger (Editor); John C. Nemiah (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 680
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Date June 2000
- ISBN 9780880488662 / 0880488662
- Weight 2.96 lbs (1.34 kg)
- Dimensions 10.26 x 7.26 x 1.42 in (26.06 x 18.44 x 3.61 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychiatry - history - United States, Psychiatry - United States - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00-024629
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.047
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