Psychotherapeutic Success: A Comparison of the Psychological and Sociological Factors in 59 Successfully Treated Cases and in 35 Unsuccessfully Treated Cases, 21 Years Old and Under, Discharged From the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 1955 and 1956
Abstract
The New York State Psychiatric Institute. The origins of the Psychiatric Institute, as we know it today, were initiated 65 years ago when the New York State Hospital Commission established the "Pathological Institute” located in an office building at No. 1 Madison Avenue. Its purpose was to establish and develop a centralized laboratory which would stimulate a more intensive program of research by the physicians in the State institutions. The study of mental illness was to be carried out through a correlation of sciences which would be represented by persons from the fields of Psychology, Psychopathology, Physiology, Biology, Anatomy, Neurology, Chemistry, Anthropology, and Bacteriology. It is interesting to note that was probably the foundation of the fundamental approach which we are using today in the field. However, although the Institute’s goals were admirable, the results were disappointing, the chief criticism being a lack of close contact with clinical material.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Sociology|Social psychology|Pathology
Recommended Citation
Grossman, Alan, "Psychotherapeutic Success: A Comparison of the Psychological and Sociological Factors in 59 Successfully Treated Cases and in 35 Unsuccessfully Treated Cases, 21 Years Old and Under, Discharged From the New York State Psychiatric Institute in 1955 and 1956" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050485.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050485
