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Bernardino Alvarez: New World Psychiatric Pioneer

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.127.9.1217

The author describes the life and assesses the contributions to psychiatry of Bernardino Alvarez, a Spaniard who founded the first mental hospitals in the New World in the 16th century.

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