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Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1998;55:372.

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Jack D. Pressman, Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, died suddenly on June 23, 1997. With this tragedy, one of the leading young historians of American psychiatry was lost. Pressman's judicious yet incisive and stimulating work represented the best in our field, a field that has been riven by ideology—first in the form of a self-justifying triumphalism, and more recently by a cynical and dismissive belief in psychiatrists as malevolent enforcers of social control. Resisting such ideological torrents, Jack carefully and thoughtfully took up one of the most controversial legacies of American psychiatry, psychosurgery.

Jack D. Pressman, PhD

Despite his youth, Jack Pressman was well suited to the task. Born in New York City, Jack attended Cornell University where he received his BA with Honors in Neurobiology and Behavior. While at Cornell, however, the object of his interest . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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