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Psychiatric Services

  • Volume 27
  • Number 7
  • July 1976

Article

Publication date: 01 July 1976

Page484

A "diagnostic" hat imported from France was used at the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, New York, in the 1840s in an attempt to reveal a patient's state of mind by locating the bumps on his head. As the hat was placed on the head, the side pieces expanded ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.7.484

Publication date: 01 July 1976

Pages512–514

Dr. Brown traces the history of America's federal mental health program from its beginning in the early 1900s. NIMH, the institute he currently directs, was established in 1946 for the treatment and prevention of mental and emotional illnesses through ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.7.512

Publication date: 01 July 1976

Pages515–519

The authors describe the changing trends In psychiatric care over the last quarter century. Whereas In 1950 state and county mental hospitals were the principal site for psychiatric care, by 1974 community mental health centers and other types of mental ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.7.515

Publication date: 01 July 1976

Pages519–521

The author, formerly chairman of the editorial board of Hospital & Community Psychiatry, traveled thousands of miles on foot and by camel, raft, and Land Rover to gather the information presented in this paper. His research was supported in part by NIMH ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.27.7.519

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