List of Plates
About the Author
Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Post-World War II Scene in American Psychiatry
Chapter 2. A Pathway to Psychiatry
Chapter 3. Implicit Preparations for a Leadership Role in
Psychiatry
Chapter 4. Reflections During the Search
Chapter 5. Clarifying the Mission
Chapter 6. En Route to Equity
Chapter 7. International Affairs
Chapter 8. Psychoanalysis
Chapter 9. Forensic Psychiatry
Chapter 10. Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Treatment
Chapter 11. Psychiatric Research
Chapter 12. Psychiatric Education
Chapter 13. A Changing Membership
Chapter 14. Annual Meetings
Chapter 15. Publications
Chapter 16. Governance and Leadership
Chapter 17. Management of External Relationships
Chapter 18. Social and Community Psychiatry
Chapter 19. Conclusions
Appendixes:
Appendix 1: Selected Papers
Appendix 1A: Turning Points in Twentieth-Century American
Psychiatry
Appendix 1B: The Future of Psychiatry
Appendix 2: American Psychiatric Association Speakers of Assembly
of District Branches
Appendix 3: Presidential Themes for American Psychiatric
Association Annual Meetings, 1984-2008
Appendix 4: Officers of the American Psychiatric Association
Appendix 5: American Psychiatric Association Membership Figures,
1873-2007
Appendix 6: Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
Appendix 7: American Psychiatric Association Organizational Chart,
2008 and 1986
Appendix 8: American Psychiatric Association Joint Commission on
Government Relations
Appendix 9: Psychiatry Organizations of Interest
Appendix 10: American Psychiatric Association Assembly Area
Councils by Region
Appendix 11: Comparison of American Psychiatric
Association Area and District Branch Membership, 2002-2007
Appendix 12: DSM Task Forces and Working Groups
Appendix 13: American Psychiatric Association Medical Directors
Appendix 14: American Psychiatric Association Governance System
Index
Melvin Sabshin's "persona perspective" is fascinating and brilliant. This is the remarkable history of the transition in psychiatry from ideology to science, written by someone who helped make this transition happen. Dr. Sabshin has "last word" on where we have been and where we are going in psychiatry. Steve S. Sharfstein,M.D., President & CEO, Sheppard Pratt Health System; Clinical Professor & Vice Chair, Dept of Psychiatry University of Maryland; & Past President, American Psychiatric Association It is not surprising that Mel Sabshin would bring together the complexity of American psychiatry with enormous texture, substance and sophisticated nuance. Mel Sabshin directed the American Psychiatric Association for several decades in which his unique blend of brilliance and interpersonal skill helped lead the association and the field to increasing levels of accomplishment and through major challenges. This text is a marvelous compilation of those interesting and rich years and will provide interesting reading for any and all interested in American and world psychiatry. Hrebert Pardes, M.D.
Melvin Sabshin, M.D., was Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association from 1974 to 1997. Dr. Sabshin studied medicine at Tulane University. After postgraduate training and a research post at Tulane's Department of Psychiatry, he received an appointment at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, a center of psychiatric research and psychodynamically oriented practice, where he completed psychoanalytic training. In 1961 he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. Dr. Sabshin is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
In this book, the author takes readers on a journey through psychiatry from the mid to late 1900s by using personal accounts, humor, and historical facts. In doing so, he has created a unique historical perspective on psychiatry. Doody Enterprises, Inc. Changing American Psychiatry is a well-documented insider's view of the changing face of psychiatry during the past half century. It will interest anyone concerned with the history of psychiatry or who wants to understand the past as a guide to dealing with current challenges in mental health care. Consequently it will be of value to both mental health practitioners and public policy makers. PsycCRITIQUES
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