“…There is growing acceptance and recognition patients. This survey capitalized upon previous efforts to compile such information, undertaken by the National Institute of Mental Health in cooperation with state mental health authorities in 1954 (Bahn & Norman, 1957). The 1959 study (Bahn, Chandler, & Eisenberg, 1962) provided a nucleus of uniform data on the number and kinds of outpatient psychiatric clinics in existence, the demographic and diagnostic characteristics of the patient population, and the services provided.…”