Psychiatry: Circa 1919-1969-2019
Authors: HOWARD P. ROME
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1969)

Special Article1 October 1969Psychiatry: Circa 1919-1969-2019HOWARD P. ROME, M.D.HOWARD P. ROME, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-71-4-845 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn 1894 one could have heard the distinguished neurologist and popular author, S. Weir Mitchell (1), castigate American psychiatry at its 50th Anniversary for being both obscure and socially irrelevant. And if 25 years later one heard the distinguished neurosurgeon, Harvey Cushing (2), deliver a similar but more moderately tempered rebuke, he would be forced to conclude that psychiatry in this country at those times was in the doldrums.Periodically after 1919 similar complaints were voiced by a number of the more perceptive leaders in psychiatry and related fields (3-10). 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