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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 126, No. 1

Articles | July 01, 1969

History of the Community Psychiatry Movement

JACK R. EWALT; PATRICIA L. EWALT

Am J Psychiatry 1969;126:43-52.

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Professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and superintendent, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Rd., Boston, Mass. 02115

Psychiatric social worker, Youth Guidance Center of the Framingham Mental Health Association, Framingham, Mass.

1970, American Psychiatric Association

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The authors trace the history of community psychiatry along six lines of development—social psychiatry, changes in hospital programs, development of clinics, evolution of the mental health professions, growth of federally supported programs, and the citizens' mental health movement. Future progress, they believe, must involve "informed activism" to change our national goals and priorities, better use of what we now know, and the development of new knowledge.

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