The psychiatrist-administrator: Odd man out?

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The development of community psychiatry as a recognized subspecialty of psychiatry and the concomitant growth of community mental health programs have once again brought into focus the role of the psychiatrist-administrator in the practice of public psychiatry. This paper explores the principal conflicts that the psychiatrist-administrator faces in his multiple roles as a physician, psychiatrist, administrator, community services planner, and clinician. Unless he can work toward a resolution of the conflicts and problems that arise, he is in danger of becoming the “odd man out”-the psychiatrist-administrator who does not have complete acceptance from any of the groups to which he belongs and within which he is trying to define his combined and complex role.

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