Psychiatry: The Battered Child of Medicine
- 30 January 1975
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 292 (5) , 246-250
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197501302920506
Abstract
Psychiatry has had a troubled history. After the French Revolution "moral treatment" brought to America a period of effective and humane hospital treatment, but this progress was corrupted by the Industrial Revolution, and psychiatry was rejected by society as well as by medicine. Although the Freudian enlightenment and the introduction of social psychiatry have led to greater acceptance, today's criticisms are strident.Keywords
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