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Robert Whitaker. Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history. [1] He is the author of five books, three of which cover the history and practice of modern psychiatry.
The first psychiatric clinic in the Russian Empire was organized by Ivan Mikhailovich Balinsky (1827-1902) at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. [13] 1892. Daniel Hack Tuke edited the first dictionary of psychiatry. [14] 1893. German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin clinically defined "dementia praecox", later reformulated as ...
Adolf Meyer, former psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, was the president of the American Psychiatric Association from 1927 to 1928 and was one of the most influential figures in psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century. [29] Mark Ragins: American psychiatrist in the recovery movement, founding member of the ...
First female president of the American Psychiatric Association. [36] First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986). [37] First director of Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1998). [37] John A. Talbott: 1984-1985: 113th president [38] George Tarjan: 1983-1984 [39] H. Keith ...
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill is a 2002 book by medical journalist Robert Whitaker, in which the author examines and questions the efficacy, safety, and ethics of past and present psychiatric interventions for severe mental illnesses, particularly antipsychotics. The book is ...
By 1969, Coles wrote in-depth profiles for The New Yorker and contributed regular columns to The New Republic, New Oxford Review, America, and the American Poetry Review. [citation needed] At the urging of Erik Erikson, in 1963 Coles became affiliated with the University Health Services at Harvard as a research psychiatrist.
First Meetings (2002) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Orson Scott Card, belonging to his Ender's Game series. Tor Books republished the book in 2003 under the titles First Meetings in the Enderverse and First Meetings in Ender's Universe and included the more recent "Teacher's Pest", a story about the first meeting of Ender's parents.
Gerald Gordon May (June 12, 1940 – April 8, 2005) was an American psychiatrist and theologian. [ 1 ] He conducted workshops in contemplation and psychology, and wrote several books on how to combine spiritual direction with psychological treatment.