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This paper examines the intersecting histories of psychiatry and psychology (particularly in its clinical guise) in the United States from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. It suggests that there have been three major shifts in the ideological and intellectual orientation of the “psy complex.” The first period sees the dominance of the asylum in the provision of mental health care, with psychology, once it emerges in the early twentieth century, remaining a small enterprise largely operating outside the clinical arena, save for the development of psychometric technology. It is followed, between 1945 and 1980, by the rise of psychoanalytic psychiatry and the emergence of clinical psychology. Finally, the re-emergence of biological psychiatry is closely associated with two major developments: an emphasis that emerges in the late 1970s on rendering the diagnosis of psychiatric illnesses mechanical and predictable; and the long-term effects of the psychopharmacological revolution that began in the early 1950s. This third period has seen a shift the orientation of mainstream psychiatry away from psychotherapy, the end of traditional mental hospitals, and a transformed environment within which clinical psychologists ply their trade. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the history of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis in the U.S. from the World War II era to 2010, examining jurisdictional conflicts between professionals in these fields. It comments on the growth of the clinical psychology and psychiatric professions during World War II and the impact of the widespread de-institutionalization of patients from mental hospitals during the 1950s. The author reflects on professional organizations and training and examines the decline of psychoanalysis, particularly due to increased use of antipsychotic drugs.

This paper examines the impact of World War II and its aftermath on the mental health sector, and traces the resulting transformations in US psychiatry and psychology. Focusing on the years between 1940 and 1970, it analyses the growing federal role in funding training and research in the mental health sector, the dominance of psychoanalysis within psychiatry in these years, and the parallel changes that occurred in both academic and clinical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article the authors focus on some of the central aspects of American psychiatrist Adolf Meyer's life and work with particular attention given to his role as a mentor and patron of the research and practice of two other influential people in 20th century psychiatry and psychobiology: Phyllis Greenacre and Curt Richter. Also discussed is the course of events that transpired between the three at Johns Hopkins University.

This article reviews the development of the historiography of Anglo-American psychiatry over the past quarter century, while passing attention to work on the history of psychiatry in Europe. The relationship between earlier and later work is stressed, and recent trends in the field assessed. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses some contradictions in the discovery of mental illness in England as a response to Edward Hare's study on the number of mentally ill people. One contradiction is the boost in the number of mentally ill people when an approach which aimed at treating these people was carried out. Hare argues that the growth in numbers mirrors a real increase in the most serious forms of the disorder, schizophrenia. Despite the efforts to minimize such cases except on extreme cases, psychiatrists were forced to announced that one is insane because of embarrassment.