Dr. Cooper is with the Division of Health Care Planning, Health Policy Institute at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Address correspondence to Dr. Cooper, Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, rcooper{at}mcw.edu (E-mail). The articles in this issue cover important ground in their examination of workforce concerns in psychiatry. While bearing many similarities to analogous concerns that exist in other medical specialties, they take on an additional layer of complexity in psychiatry because of two unusual, if not unique, characteristics. The first has to do with psychiatry's shifting jurisdictional boundaries and the second with its evolutionary conceptual basisits defining abstraction (1). It is from this frame of reference that I will attempt to shed light on where psychiatry is going and how recruitment and training might best take place. Abstract Identity Freud never made it into my medical school curriculum. I learned biological psychiatry in the late 1950s at the feet of Robins and Guze, who were not only leading the revolution away from dynamic psychiatry but preparing us for the coming era of psychopharmacology (2,3). We sensed the winds of change, not realizing that change had been the
Where Is Psychiatry Going and Who Is Going There?
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Dr. Cooper is with the Division of Health Care Planning, Health Policy Institute at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Address correspondence to Dr. Cooper, Health Policy Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, rcooper{at}mcw.edu (E-mail). The articles in this issue cover important ground in their examination of workforce concerns in psychiatry. While bearing many similarities to analogous concerns that exist in other medical specialties, they take on an additional layer of complexity in psychiatry because of two unusual, if not unique, characteristics. The first has to do with psychiatry's shifting jurisdictional boundaries and the second with its evolutionary conceptual basisits defining abstraction (1). It is from this frame of reference that I will attempt to shed light on where psychiatry is going and how recruitment and training might best take place. Abstract Identity Freud never made it into my medical school curriculum. I learned biological psychiatry in the late 1950s at the feet of Robins and Guze, who were not only leading the revolution away from dynamic psychiatry but preparing us for the coming era of psychopharmacology (2,3). We sensed the winds of change, not realizing that change had been the
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Where Is Psychiatry Going and Who Is Going There?
Cooper, Richard A.
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, Volume 27 (4): 229
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Dec 1, 2003
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