Title: The history and influence of the American Psychiatric Association /
Authors: Barton, Walter E., 1906-; American Psychiatric Association
Publisher: American Psychiatric Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: American Psychiatric Association; American Psychiatric Association History.; Societies, Medical; Psychiatry; Psychiatry United States History.; United States
Contents: The beginning: development in the care of the mentally ill before 1840 -- The birth of organized psychiatry in the 1840s -- The formative years: 1850-1899 -- Psychiatry as a social force: 1900-1949 -- Psychiatry advances as a medical speciality: 1900-1949 -- Medicine and society: toward shared authority and power, 1950-1986 -- Building a stronger American Psychiatric Association after 1950 -- Appendices: Benjamin Rush -- The founding fathers: Brief biographical sketches -- Dorothea Dix -- The medical directors of the American Psychiatric Association -- Museum building -- The headquarters at 1400 K Street -- Officers and meeting places of the American Psychiatric Association.