American Psychiatric Association - Benjamin Rush Lectures
American Psychiatric Association - Benjamin Rush Lectures
APA Benjamin Rush Lectures on Psychiatric History
1967: George Rosen M.D., Professor of Health Education, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York. Affect and Sensibility in Ages of Anxiety: A Comparative Historical View.
1968: Carl Binger, M.D., Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Dreams of Benjamin Rush.
1969: H. Stuart Hughes, Ph.D., L.H.D., Professor of History, Harvard University, Cambridge. Emotional Disturbance and American Social Change, 1944-1969.
1970: Roy R. Grinker, M.D., Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago. The Continuing Search for Meaning.
1971: Sir Isaiah Berlin, President, Wolfson College, Oxford University, England. The Origins of Modern Irrationalism in the Last Two Centuries.
1972: David Herbert Donald, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Between History and Psychology: Reflections on Psychobiography.
1973: Erving Goffman, Ph.D., Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The Use of Stills in the Study of Gender Display .
1974: C. Vann Woodward, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven. What Became of the Nineteen-Sixties?
1975: Joseph Leon Edel, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. The Madness of Art.
1976: David Brion Davis, Ph.D., Professor of History, Yale University, New Haven. The Significance of Boundaries in Early American History.
1977: Daniel Aaron, Professor of American Civilization, Harvard University, Cambridge. The Etiquette of Grief: A Literary Generation's Response to Death.
1978: Christopher Lasch, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rochester University, New York. Narcissism and Modern Society
1979: Peter Gay, Professor of History, Durfee Professor, Yale University, New Haven. Reductionism: On Psychoanalytic Explanation in History.
1980: Dr. Nathan Hale, Jr., Professor of History, University of California, Riverside. Medical Evangelism and Psychiatry: The Case of Psychosomatic Medicine
1981: David Reisman, Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge. Dilemmas of Academic Leadership in an Age of Self-Realization.
1982: Dr. Hannah Gray, President, University of Chicago. Utopia and Education.
1983: Robert Nisbet, Ph.D., Albert Schweitzer Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. The Function of Intermediate Association.
1984: Carl N. Degler, Ph.D., Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University, Stanford. What has Held America Together?
1985: Norman Dain, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Critics and Dissenters: Anti-Psychiatry in the United States.
1986: Gerald N. Grob, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Prelude to Deinstitutionalization.
1987: Ilza Veith, Ph.D., M.D., Professor Emeritus, History of Health Sciences and Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco. Benjamin Rush: Psychiatrist. Physician and Social Reformer
1988: Charles E. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Body and Mind in the Nineteenth Century Medical Practice: A Clinical Context for Constructing the Neuroses.
1989: Guenter B. Risse, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of the Department of History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. The Great Neurosis: Clinical Constructions of Hysteria, 1876-1895.
1990: Sander L. Gilman, Ph.D., Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies, Cornell University; Professor of Psychiatry (History), Cornell Medical College. Seeing the Hysteric: Race and Gender in fin-de-siecle Psychiatry.
1991: Stanley W. Jackson, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and History of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The Listening Healer in the History of Psychological Healing.
1992: Aaron Lazare, M.D., Chancellor, ad interim, Dean School of Medicine. University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA. Shame and Humiliation in the Clinical Encounter.
1993: Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. Gender. Empathy and the New Science: Medicine and Professionalism in Late 19th Century America.
1994: Nancy J. Tomes. Ph.D., Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Art of Asylum-Keeping: Some Sesquicentennial Reflections.
1995: Leston L. Havens. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge. What is Psychiatry all About?
1996: Helen Swick Perry, Historian. Sullivan's Legacy for Enduring Peace and Social Progress.
1997: Jerry M. Lewis. M.D., Senior Research Psychiatrist, Timberlawn Psychiatric Research Foundation, Dallas, TX. For Better of Worse: Interpersonal Relationships and Individual Outcome.
1998: Elizabeth Lunbeck, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History. Princeton University, NJ. The Empty Self: BPD in Historical Perspective.
1999: Bessel A. van der Kolk. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA and Founder and Director of the Trauma Center, Boston, MA. Social and Neurobiological Dimensions of the Compulsion to Forget and Repeat Trauma
2000: Ronald A. Numbers, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of the History of Medicine and Hilldale & William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine University of Wisconsin-Madison. Millennial Madness: Religion and Insanity in American History.
2002: James P. Comer, M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center. Problems Facing Innercity School Educators and the Role of Psychiatry in Addressing Them.
2004: David Mechanic, Ph.D., Professor and Director, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Institute of Health, Rutgers University. The Changing Face of Mental Health Services.