Psychiatric Services
- Volume 27
- Number 7
- July 1976
Article
Publication date: 01 July 1976
Page484A "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.27.7.484Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages512–514Dr. 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.27.7.512Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages515–519The 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.27.7.515Publication date: 01 July 1976
Pages519–521The 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