One hundred years of American psychiatry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

American Psychiatric Association.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology, Pathological.

Psychiatry--United States--History.

Psychiatry.

Insanity (Law)--United States.

Insanity (Law).

History.

United States.

Psychiatry--history.

Phychiatry.

Psiquiatría--Historia--Estados Unidos.

Medical Subjects:

Psychiatry--history.

Phychiatry.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Psiquiatría--Historia--Estados Unidos.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

6 preliminary leaves, xi unnumbered pages-xxiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 649 pages, 1 leaf : illustrations, portraits

Place of Publication:

New York : Pub. for the American psychiatric Association by Columbia University Press, 1944.

Contents:

Presenting the volume, by Gregory Zilboorg.

Introduction, by J.K. Hall.

The beginnings: from colonial days to the foundation of the American psychiatric association, by R.H. Shryock.

Psychiatry in Europe at the middle of the nineteenth century, by H.E. Sigerist.

The founding and the founders of the association, by Winfred Overholser.

The history of American mental hospitals, by S.W. Hamilton.

A century of psychiatric research in America, by J.C. Whitehorn.

American psychiatric literature during the past one hundren years, by H.A. Bunder.

The history of psychiatric therapies, by William Malamud.

The history of mental hygiene, by Albert Deutsch.

I. Military psychiatry: The civil war, 1861-1865, by Albert Deutsch.

II. Military psychiatry: World War I, 1917-1918, by E.A. Strecker.

III. Military psychiatry: World war II, 1941-1943, by Albert Deutsch.

A century of psychology in its relationshilp to American paychiatry, by T.V. Moore.

American psychiatry as a specialty, by H.A. Bunker.

Legal aspects of psychiatry, by Gregory Zilboorg.

The influence of psychiatry on anthropology in America during the past one hundred years, by Clyde Kluckhohn.

Notes:

Commemorates the one hundredth birthday of the American psychiatric association. cf. p. [xi].

Includes bibliographical references.

"Some important books in American psychiatry published in the last twenty-five years": pages 266-269.

"American psychiatric periodicals": pages 269-271.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (torn at front and spine) retained.

Other Format:

Online version: American Psychiatric Association. One hundred years of American psychiatry.

OCLC:

2190186