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The Newest Therapeutic Bandwagon

H. WARREN DUNHAM, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(3):303-313.

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THE PROPOSAL to add community psychiatry to the ever-widening list of psychiatric specialties deserves a critical examination. Thus, my purpose in this paper is fourfold. First, I intend to examine the nature of community psychiatry as it is taking shape. Second, I want to consider our continuing uncertainty about mental illness which is manifested in a widening of its definition. Third, I discuss some of the historical landmarks and cultural forces that have brought about the proposal for this new subspecialty of psychiatry. Finally, I examine some of its hidden aspects with respect to the future role of psychiatry.

Community Psychiatry: The Newest Subspecialty.—Let us begin by examining the nature of community psychiatry that is apparently emerging as judged by a mounting chorus of voices from those who jump on any bandwagon as long as it is moving. In doing this I will . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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DETROIT

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 14, 1964.

Read before the staff of the Institute for Juvenile Research, Chicago, May 19, 1964.

Reprint requests to 951 E Lafayette, Detroit, Mich. 48207.

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