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Psychiatry and the War.
The Scandal of Neglect.
A Shift in Orientation.
Government Action.
Because of the state-hospital scandal and the unexpected success in the treatment of psychiatric patients by the military's psychiatric services during the war, Congress was persuaded to pass the National Mental Health Act in 1946. With the federal assistance authorized by this act thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses were educated. In 1949 the government created the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). With government support psychiatry shifted toward proactive prevention of mental illness and away from the after-the-fall institutional warehousing of the mentally disabled that created such a scandal after World War II.Sources:
James Bordley III and A. McGehee Harvey, Two Centuries of American Medicine (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1976), pp. 740-743;
William Menninger, Psychiatry in a Troubled World...
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