Roy W. Menninger, M.D., is Past President and CEO of the Menninger Foundation and a member of the faculty of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, Kansas.John C. Nemiah, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School.

In this book, a monumental achievement, they define the evolution of American psychiatry from [World War II] to 1994.... This book will become the definitive classic in the study of American psychiatry.For its comprehensive, balanced coverage, the volume is something of a tour de force, certainly an essential manual for any student of the history of American Psychiatry.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Experience and Lessons of WarChapter 1. Military Psychiatry Since World War IIChapter 2. War, Peace, and Posttraumatic Stress DisorderChapter 3. Silver Linings in the Clouds of War: A Five-Decade RetrospectivePart II: Postwar Growth of Clinical PsychiatryChapter 4. American Psychoanalysis Since World War IIChapter 5. The Evolving Role of the Psychiatrist From the Perspective of PsychotherapyChapter 6. Psychiatric Education After World War IIChapter 7. Psyche and Soma: Struggles to Close the GapChapter 8. Postwar Psychiatry: Personal ObservationsPart III: Public Attitudes, Public Perceptions, and Public PolicyChapter 9. The National Institute of Mental Health: Its Influence on Psychiatry and the Nation's Mental HealthChapter 10. Mental Health Policy in Late Twentieth-Century AmericaChapter 11. Deinstitutionalization and Public PolicyChapter 13. The Consumer MovementChapter 14. The Cultural Impact of Psychiatry: The Question of Regressive EffectsChapter 15. Managed Care and Other Economic ConstraintsPart IV: The Rise of Scientific EmpiricismChapter 16. American Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, 1944--1994Chapter 17. Functional Psychoses and the Conceptualization of Mental IllnessChapter 18. Diagnosis and Classification of Mental DisordersPart V: Differentiation and SpecializationChapter 19. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Comes of Age, 1944--1994Chapter 20. A Brief History of Geriatric Psychiatry in the United States, 1944--1994Chapter 21. Addiction Psychiatry: The 50 Years Following World War IIChapter 22. Forensic Psychiatry After World War IIPart VI: Principles and People 543Chapter 23. Ethics in the American Psychiatric Association After World War IIChapter 24. Women Psychiatrists in American Postwar PsychiatryChapter 25. Minorities and Mental HealthIndex

Roy W. Menninger, M.D., is Past President and CEO of the Menninger Foundation and a member of the faculty of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, Kansas.John C. Nemiah, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School.

In this book, a monumental achievement, they define the evolution of American psychiatry from [World War II] to 1994.... This book will become the definitive classic in the study of American psychiatry.For its comprehensive, balanced coverage, the volume is something of a tour de force, certainly an essential manual for any student of the history of American Psychiatry.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Experience and Lessons of WarChapter 1. Military Psychiatry Since World War IIChapter 2. War, Peace, and Posttraumatic Stress DisorderChapter 3. Silver Linings in the Clouds of War: A Five-Decade RetrospectivePart II: Postwar Growth of Clinical PsychiatryChapter 4. American Psychoanalysis Since World War IIChapter 5. The Evolving Role of the Psychiatrist From the Perspective of PsychotherapyChapter 6. Psychiatric Education After World War IIChapter 7. Psyche and Soma: Struggles to Close the GapChapter 8. Postwar Psychiatry: Personal ObservationsPart III: Public Attitudes, Public Perceptions, and Public PolicyChapter 9. The National Institute of Mental Health: Its Influence on Psychiatry and the Nation's Mental HealthChapter 10. Mental Health Policy in Late Twentieth-Century AmericaChapter 11. Deinstitutionalization and Public PolicyChapter 13. The Consumer MovementChapter 14. The Cultural Impact of Psychiatry: The Question of Regressive EffectsChapter 15. Managed Care and Other Economic ConstraintsPart IV: The Rise of Scientific EmpiricismChapter 16. American Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, 1944--1994Chapter 17. Functional Psychoses and the Conceptualization of Mental IllnessChapter 18. Diagnosis and Classification of Mental DisordersPart V: Differentiation and SpecializationChapter 19. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Comes of Age, 1944--1994Chapter 20. A Brief History of Geriatric Psychiatry in the United States, 1944--1994Chapter 21. Addiction Psychiatry: The 50 Years Following World War IIChapter 22. Forensic Psychiatry After World War IIPart VI: Principles and People 543Chapter 23. Ethics in the American Psychiatric Association After World War IIChapter 24. Women Psychiatrists in American Postwar PsychiatryChapter 25. Minorities and Mental HealthIndex

Roy W. Menninger, M.D., is Past President and CEO of the Menninger Foundation and a member of the faculty of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita, Kansas.John C. Nemiah, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School.

In this book, a monumental achievement, they define the evolution of American psychiatry from [World War II] to 1994.... This book will become the definitive classic in the study of American psychiatry.For its comprehensive, balanced coverage, the volume is something of a tour de force, certainly an essential manual for any student of the history of American Psychiatry.

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Experience and Lessons of WarChapter 1. Military Psychiatry Since World War IIChapter 2. War, Peace, and Posttraumatic Stress DisorderChapter 3. Silver Linings in the Clouds of War: A Five-Decade RetrospectivePart II: Postwar Growth of Clinical PsychiatryChapter 4. American Psychoanalysis Since World War IIChapter 5. The Evolving Role of the Psychiatrist From the Perspective of PsychotherapyChapter 6. Psychiatric Education After World War IIChapter 7. Psyche and Soma: Struggles to Close the GapChapter 8. Postwar Psychiatry: Personal ObservationsPart III: Public Attitudes, Public Perceptions, and Public PolicyChapter 9. The National Institute of Mental Health: Its Influence on Psychiatry and the Nation's Mental HealthChapter 10. Mental Health Policy in Late Twentieth-Century AmericaChapter 11. Deinstitutionalization and Public PolicyChapter 13. The Consumer MovementChapter 14. The Cultural Impact of Psychiatry: The Question of Regressive EffectsChapter 15. Managed Care and Other Economic ConstraintsPart IV: The Rise of Scientific EmpiricismChapter 16. American Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology, 1944--1994Chapter 17. Functional Psychoses and the Conceptualization of Mental IllnessChapter 18. Diagnosis and Classification of Mental DisordersPart V: Differentiation and SpecializationChapter 19. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Comes of Age, 1944--1994Chapter 20. A Brief History of Geriatric Psychiatry in the United States, 1944--1994Chapter 21. Addiction Psychiatry: The 50 Years Following World War IIChapter 22. Forensic Psychiatry After World War IIPart VI: Principles and People 543Chapter 23. Ethics in the American Psychiatric Association After World War IIChapter 24. Women Psychiatrists in American Postwar PsychiatryChapter 25. Minorities and Mental HealthIndex