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Psychiatry: Circa 1919-1969-2019
- HOWARD P. ROME, M.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Howard P. Rome, M.D., Section of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 55901
Excerpt
In 1894 one could have heard the distinguished neurologist and popular author, S. Weir Mitchell (1), castigate American psychiatry at its 50th Anniversary for being both obscure and socially irrelevant. And if 25 years later one heard the distinguished neurosurgeon, Harvey Cushing (2), deliver a similar but more moderately tempered rebuke, he would be forced to conclude that psychiatry in this country at those times was in the doldrums.
Periodically after 1919 similar complaints were voiced by a number of the more perceptive leaders in psychiatry and related fields (3-10). They expressed dissatisfaction with the insularity of the psychiatry of
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Article and Author Information
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The William C. Menninger Memorial Lecture, given April 25, 1969, at the 50th Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Chicago, Ill.
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- Received May 16, 1969.
- Accepted August 1, 1969.
