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A Bicentennial address: Benjamin Rush and those who came after him.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  988756     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In this Bicentennial year, the author takes a look at the early days of Amercan psychiatry, focusing on some of the great men who helped to form the discipline. These men have much to teach us in a time when the field is divided within and faces a crisis of public confidence without. We can learn much from men like Benjamin Rush, who although they were actively involved in the social movements of their day, remained always the physician. Dr. Braceland suggests that it is time for psychiatry to move back into the mainstream of medicine, retaining, of course, mastery of psychotherpeutic techniques and knowledge of psychodynamics. This move can best be accomplished by employing the principle of complementarity, the art of encompassing different approaches to problems and utilizing the essentials of each to arrive at workable solutions.
Authors:
F J Braceland
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The American journal of psychiatry     Volume:  133     ISSN:  0002-953X     ISO Abbreviation:  Am J Psychiatry     Publication Date:  1976 Nov 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1976-12-23     Completed Date:  1976-12-23     Revised Date:  2007-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0370512     Medline TA:  Am J Psychiatry     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1251-8     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM; Q    
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Community Mental Health Services / history
Female
Forecasting
Forensic Psychiatry / history
Hospitals, Psychiatric / history
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Periodicals as Topic / history
Pregnancy
Psychiatry / history*
Therapeutics
United States

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