Holistic-medical foundations of American psychiatry: a bicentennial
- PMID: 7020433
- DOI: 10.1176/ajp.138.7.888
Holistic-medical foundations of American psychiatry: a bicentennial
Abstract
American psychiatry has reached its bicentennial. Holistic-medical foundations have been its hallmark, inspiration, and source of preeminence. Incorporated by psychobiology, the American school, they enabled the growth of psychiatry as a medical specialty and scientific discipline and stimulated unparalleled growth of general hospital psychiatry, psychiatric research and teaching, and psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry. Holistic conceptions, a product of a democratic system and the liberal mind, continue to provide the best framework for psychiatry and an antidote to dogma and fanaticism.
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