1st Edition

The Sources and Development of Social and Community Psychiatry Community Mental Health, Erich Lindemann, and Social Conscience in American Psychiatry, Volume 1

By David G. Satin Copyright 2021
360 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 16 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... Read more

1. A Conceptual Framework for Social Psychiatry and Community Mental Health

2. Progenitors of Community Mental Health: Prior to 1900

3. Forebears and Portents of Social and Community Psychiatry: 1900–1909

4. The Incubator of Social Consciousness: 1910–1918

5. Ideas and Ideologies for a Social Psychology: 1919–1926

6. The Passage from Preparation to Practice: 1927–1934

7. The Establishment of Psychological Medicine and the Emergence of Social Psychiatry: 1935–1947

8. Overflowing Traditional Boundaries and the Reactions: 1948–1953

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.