Psychiatric Drugs in an Outpatient Mental Hygiene Setting: A Case Study of Six Patients Known to the Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment Unit, Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, 1960-1961
Abstract
Mike Gorman, Executive Director of the National Mental Health Committee since 1953, has estimated that there are nine million people in the United States today who are suffering from some form of mental illness which is severe enough to warrant treatment. As a most pressing social problem, mental illness knows no bias in its frightening assault on the stability of American family life. With ease, one can discover and survey a mass of professional and popular literature filled with documented statistics which clearly portray the annual cost of mental illness in the United States. This country pays an enormous price for its mental and emotional maladies. It pays in the form of measureless human suffering, in increasing taxation, in the loss of livelihood and in reduced productivity.
Subject Area
Mental health|Social psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Nolan, Kenneth Joseph, "Psychiatric Drugs in an Outpatient Mental Hygiene Setting: A Case Study of Six Patients Known to the Psychopharmacologic Research and Treatment Unit, Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, 1960-1961" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050550.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050550
