Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:621-625
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
The future of psychiatry
T Detre
The author reviews the vicissitudes of psychiatry's history over the past
50 years and urges the profession to abandon false boundaries between mind
and brain and to make a commitment to the scientific validation of
prevailing theories of the etiology of psychiatric disorders. He argues
that the separation of psychiatry and neurology is no longer justified. He
calls instead for a carefully conceived new career path leading to
specialization in clinical neuroscience and further urges that psychiatric
training programs be restructured to focus on the critical examination of
problem solving and validation methods.
