Benjamin Rush Award & Lecture

1967 George Rosen M.D., Professor of Health Education, Columbia University School of Public Health. 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. Emotional Disturbance and American Social Change, 1944-1969.
1970 Roy R. Grinker, M.D., Michael Reese Hospital. The Continuing Search for Meaning.
1971 Sir Isaiah Berlin, President, Wolfson College, Oxford University. The Origins of Modern Irrationalism in the Last Two Centuries.
1972 David Herbert Donald, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Between History and Psychology: Reflections on Psychobiography.
1973 Erving Goffman, Ph.D., Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. The Use of Stills in the Study of Gender Display.
1974 C. Vann Woodward, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of History, Yale University. What Became of the 1960s?
1975 Joseph Leon Edel, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Hawaii at Manoa. The Madness of Art.
1976 David Brion Davis, Ph.D., Professor of History, Yale University. The Significance of Boundaries in Early American History.
1977 Daniel Aaron, Professor of American Civilization, Harvard University. The Etiquette of Grief: A Literary Generation's Response to Death.
1978 Christopher Lasch, Ph.D., Professor of History, Rochester University. Narcissism and Modern Society.
1979 Peter Gay, Professor of History, Durfee Professor, Yale University. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Shame and Humiliation in the Clinical Encounter.
1993 Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, University of California at Los Angeles. 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. 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 or Worse: Interpersonal Relationships and Individual Outcome.
1998 Elizabeth Lunbeck, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History, Princeton University. The Empty Self: Borderline Personality Disorder in Historical Perspective.
1999 Bessel A. van der Kolk. M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine; Founder and Director of the Trauma Center, Boston. 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 Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine University of Wisconsin. 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.
2006 Leon Eisenberg, M.D., Presley Professor of Social Medicine, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Harvard Medical School. Furor Therapeuticus: Benjamin Rush and the Yellow Fever Epidemic.
2008 Mark S. Micale, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History of Science and Medicine at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Psychological Trauma and the Lessons of History.

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