Psychiatry and the Tranquilizers
- 28 September 1961
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 265 (13) , 634-638
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196109282651306
Abstract
Discrepant FindingsAt the present time, the predominant academic orientation of psychiatry in the United States remains psychodynamic; in this regard Menninger's69 statement made in 1956 continues, in large measure, to obtain: "Today, American psychiatry is one based on a psychoanalytic theory of personality...." Earlier, in the 1930 edition of The Human Mind, in a similar vein, the same authority stated, "... practically no intelligent and informed scientist today disputes the main thesis and findings of psychoanalysis...." The American psychodynamic approach, of which the interpersonal theory of psychiatry described in a volume by Sullivan70 is a prominent development, may suitably . . .Keywords
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