One hundred years of American psychiatry.

New York : Pub. for the American psychiatric association by the Columbia university press, 1944.

xxiv, 649 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, tables (some folded), diagram ; 27 cm

"Commemorates the one hundredth birthday of the American psychiatric association"--p. [xi]

Presenting the volume, by Gregory Zilboorg.--Introduction, by J.K. Hall.--The beginnings: from colonial days to the foundation of the American psychiatric association, by R.H. Shryock.--Psychiatry in Europe at the middle of the nineteenth century, by H.E. Sigerist.--The founding and the founders of the association, by Winfred Overholser.--The history of American mental hospitals, by S.W. Hamilton.--A century of psychiatric research in America, by J.C. Whitehorn.--American psychiatric literature during the past one hundred years, by H.A. Bunder.--The history of psychiatric therapies, by William Malamud.--The history of mental hygiene, by Albert Deutsch.--I. Military psychiatry: The civil war, 1861-1865, by Albert Deutsch.--II. Military psychiatry: World War I, 1917-1918, by E.A. Strecker.--III. Military psychiatry: World war II, 1941-1943, by Albert Deutsch.--A century of psychology in its relationshilp to American paychiatry, by T.V. Moore.--American psychiatry as a specialty , by H.A. Bunker.--Legal aspects of psychiatry, by Gregory Zilboorg.--The influence of psychiatry on anthropology in America during the past one hundred years, by Clyde Kluckhohn.

"Some important books in American psychiatry published in the last twenty-five years": p. [266]-269

"American psychiatric periodicals": p. 269-271

Includes bibliographic footnotes