Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Part I: Historical Reviews. Early and contemporary pioneers. Development of a department of psychiatry in a general hospital. Community psychiatry and work in the public sector. Development of the Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College. Participant observer: the experiences of a black transcultural psychiatrist, 1972-1994. Black Americans in military psychiatry. Part II: Surveys. Black psychiatrists and academia. Child and adolescent psychiatrists. Black psychiatric researchers. Forensic psychiatrists. Psychoanalysts. Part III: Personal Reminiscences. Reflections of a commissioner of mental health and a head of a department of psychiatry. Reflections on the career of a black psychiatrist in the veterans administration. Part IV: Current Mental Health Issues Affecting African Americans. Mental health issues affecting African Americans. Index.

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I was excited to see Black Psychiatrists and American Psychiatry. It provides a much needed overview of the history and current practice of black physicians specializing in psychiatry. This important and useful book is essential reading for those interested in history of medicine, psychiatry, and black history. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York

About the Author

Jeanne Spurlock, M.D., has held numerous positions including Director of the Children's Psychosomatic Unit at the University of Illinois; Chief of Child Psychiatry at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago; Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College; and the Deputy Medical Director and Director of the Office of Minority National Affairs for the American Psychiatric Association. She has received several awards, including the honorary degree of Doctor of Science Award from Spelman College; the APA Solomon Carter Fuller, McGavin and Presidential Commendation Awards; the Institute of the Pennsylvania Award in memory of Edward A. Strecker, M.D.; and the Guardian for Children Award from the National Black Child Development Institute. Dr. Spurlock has also served as coeditor and coauthor of more than 33 publications.

Reviews

This book should be read by those with an interest in the history of psychiatry as well as by those who wonder what psychiatrists do in addition to helping individuals overcome the symptoms of those biological disorders called mental illness.