A History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the United States

By John E. Schowalter, M.D.
| September 1, 2003

Dr. Schowalter is the Albert J. Solnit Professor of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of Clinical Services at the Yale Child Study Center of the Yale School of Medicine, and he has served as chair of the Certification Committee for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

During the past 50 years, evolving interest in and understanding of developmental psychopathology have shown how intertwined developmental stages are for patients' diagnosis and treatment. In the decades to come, genetics, neuroimaging and other new techniques will not only affect our work with children, but also determine the type and number of professional organizations that will be needed to treat children and adolescents with mental illnesses.

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3. Freud A (1946), The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. New York: International Universities Press Inc.
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5. Schowalter JE (1994), The History of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In: Psychiatry, vol. 2, Michels R, Cooper A, Guze S et al., eds. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, pp1-13.
6. Schowalter JE (2000), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Comes of Age. In: American Psychiatry After World War II (1944-1994), Menninger R, Nemiah J, eds. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, pp461-480.

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