1st Edition

The Eclipse of Community Mental Health and Erich Lindemann Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry, Volume 3

By David G. Satin Copyright 2021
482 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

482 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

482 Pages 32 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... Read more

1. A Sampling of Community Mental Health Programs

2. The Counterrevolution of Biology and Business, and the Suppression of Community Mental Health: 1966–1974

3. Continuity and Replacement: After 1974—Legacy and Successors of Community Mental Health

4. Lindemann, Social Ideology, and Social Conscience in Psychiatry and Society: Expectations and Experience

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.