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Edited by Roy W. Menninger and John C. Nemiah. 651 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 2000. $49. ISBN 0-88048-866-2.
Edited by Hugh Freeman. 370 pp., illustrated. St. Louis, Mosby, 2000. $120. ISBN 0-7234-3174-4.

American Psychiatry after World War II is the American Psychiatric Association's tribute to the first 50 years of the field's second century. Intended to follow in the footsteps of the centennial history of psychiatry, published in 1944, this book is fittingly edited by Roy Menninger, a scion of a family that made important contributions to the story of psychiatry, and John Nemiah, a distinguished emeritus editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry, which recorded so much of what is retold here. In more or less chronological sections, the book covers the lessons of war, the growth of clinical psychiatry . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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