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PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY CASTEL,CASTEL,& LOVELL THE PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY Robert Castel, Frangoise Castel, and Anne Lovell Arthur Goldhammer, Translator The first asylums were established in America in the 1820s. The mental hospitals which gradually replaced them saw a dramatic drop in the number of resident patients after 1955. Was this due to a so- called "unlocking of hospital gates"? "Collective care" was the label given the new service offered by community mental health centers—but in whose interest was such "social medicine" really conceived? As the mental health establishment evolved in the United States, powerful groups of professionals and politicians stood to lose or gain prestige and economic well-being. Although there were fewer patients in mental hospitals by the mid-fifties, increasing numbers of Americans were seeking psychiatric care. The reorganization of mental health services—dictated by economic and bureaucratic reasons as much as by medical or philanthropic ones- resulted in an enlarged role of psychiatric treatment in society. Behind the guise of "social medicine," social and political forces were effecting a change in the definition of mental health, and subtly encouraging conformity to the norm. The Psychiatric Society traces the complicated interplay of medicine with politics, the public with the private sector, and the impulses toward decentralization with those of social control. Robert Castel, Frangoise Castel, and Anne Lovell explain how an institution originally intended to provide medical services for a small segment of American society evolved into a system ready to absorb any new technique directed {continuedon back flap) ^^ Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/psychiatricsocieOOcast The Psychiatric Society European Perspectives: A Series ofthe Columbia University Press THE PSYCHIATRIC SOCIETY ^m^ Robert Castel, Fran^oise Castel, and Anne Lovell Translated by Arthur Goldhammer COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS New York 1982 — First published in French as La Societepsychiatrique avancee, © Editions Grasset et Fasquelle, 1979 Columbia University Press New York Guildford, Surrey Copyright © 1982 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica Library ofCongress Cataloging in Publication Data Castel, Fran(;oise. The psychiatric society. (European perspectives) Translation of: La societe psychiatrique avancee / Franqoise Castel, Robert Castel, Anne Lovell. Includes bibliographical references and index. — 1. Mental hea—lth services United States. 2. Psychiatry United States. I. Castel, Robert. 11. Lovell, Anne. III. Title. IV. Series—. [DNLM: 1. Mental health—services History United States. 2. Psychiatry Histo- WM ry—United States. 11 AAl C4s] RA790.6.C3713 362.2'0973 81-15504 ISBN 0-231-05244-8 AACR2 Clothhoundeditions ofColumbia University Press books are Sntyth-sewn andprinted onpermanent anddurable acid-freepaper. Contents Translator's Note vii Preface to the English Edition ix Preface xv A Part One: Resistible Rise CHAPTER one: The Success ofthe Worst 3 CHAPTER two: The Progressive Era 24 CHAPTER three: The Third Psychiatric Revolution 54 Part Two: An American Dream chapter four: Psychiatric Hospitals: The New Order 83 CHAPTER five: The Illusions ofCommunity 124 Part Three: Psychamerica CHAPTER six: The Psychiatrization ofDifference 175 CHAPTER seven: Alternatives to Psychiatry and Psychiatrization ofthe Alternatives 214 CHAPTER eight: Psy Services and Their New Consumers 256 Conclusion: The Psy World 291 Notes 321 Index 353

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