Presidential Address, Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association, Held at Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-14, 19o1

Wise, P. M.

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“…On the contrary, these turn-of-the-century psychiatrists felt that they were living through an era of psychiatric practice that was exciting, dynamic and scientific. PM Wise, incoming President of the American Medico-Psychological Association (the forerunner of the American Psychiatric Association), summed up the attitude in his 1901 inaugural address when he remarked that ‘[w]e are on the threshold of a great epoch, and [stand] at the entrance to a century which promises so much, after our farewell to the greatest century of the world’s history’ (Wise, 1901: 79). The mood was not of stagnation and desperation, but of hope and progress.…”

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The psychopathic hospital

Nathan

2023

Hist Psychiatry

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A new psychiatric institution emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the psychopathic hospital. This institution represented a significant development in the history of psychiatry, as it marked the profession’s reorientation from asylum-based to hospital-based care, and in this way presaged the deinstitutionalization movement that would begin half a century later. Psychopathic hospitals were also an important marker of psychiatry’s efforts to redefine its professional boundaries and respond to its vociferous critics. This entailed both a rapprochement with general medicine in an effort to assert its scientific bona fides and a redefinition of its scope of practice to absorb non-certifiable ‘borderland’ cases in order both to emphasize non-coercive treatment and to enlarge the profession’s boundaries.

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The psychopathic hospital

Nathan

2023

Hist Psychiatry

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“…Like Chapin, many of the presidents in this time period grappled with how to reconcile the past with the present and the future. Many of them felt very strongly that the work of the association's past should not be criticized, even as they looked forward to new activities outside the asylums (38,39). Others reminded their audience that significant progress had been made by the association by overcoming older, mythological ideas about the mind and its illnesses (40,41).…”

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History, Memory, and Profession: A View of American Psychiatry Through APA Presidential Addresses, 1883–2003

Hirshbein¹

2004

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The address of the retiring president of the American Psychiatric Association has been a traditional part of the annual meeting of the association since 1883. The presidential address, which has explicitly been exempted from general discussion or criticism, has become an opportunity for the elected leader of the association to reflect on the state of the profession. Over the last 120 years, the presidents of the association have themselves engaged with the history of psychiatry in ways that reflect the changes in psychiatry of the time. In the process, memory has served a professionalizing purpose, as some aspects of psychiatry's history have been remembered while others have not. In the presidential addresses, history is not just a story about the past but also a story about psychiatry's self-definition and its future.

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Issues in American Psychiatry Reflected in Remarks of APA Presidents, 1844-1994

Geller

1994

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Presidential Address, Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association, Held at Milwaukee, Wis., June 11-14, 19o1

Cited by 3 publications

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The psychopathic hospital

The psychopathic hospital

History, Memory, and Profession: A View of American Psychiatry Through APA Presidential Addresses, 1883–2003

Issues in American Psychiatry Reflected in Remarks of APA Presidents, 1844-1994

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