1st Edition

The Challenge of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry, Volume 2

By David G. Satin Copyright 2021
650 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

650 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

650 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

These volumes make new contributions to the history of psychiatry and society in three ways: First, they propose a theory of values and ideology influencing the evolution of psychiatry and society in recurring cycles, and survey the history of psychiatry in recent centuries in light of this theory. Second, they review the waxing, prominence, and waning of Community Mental Health as an example of a... Read more

1. Perspectives and Ideologies

2. National Interest

3. Erich Lindemann’s Projects

4. Societal Influences and Efforts

5. Academic and Professional Involvement

6. Introducing Community Mental Health at Harvard University

7. Practicing Community Mental Health at Harvard

8. Seeking a Place at Harvard for the Social Ideology

9. Erich Lindemann’s Activities at Harvard

10. Responses to Erich Lindemann

11. The Ending of the Lindemann Era at Harvard University

Conclusion

Biography

David G. Satin is a board-certified psychiatrist who has trained at the Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals, has been Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he also obtained his MD and taught gerontology and the history of psychiatry, and has had a clinical practice in adult and geriatric psychiatry.