The Mosaic of Contemporary Psychiatry in Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Social and Community Psychiatry

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. LJ West’s Place in Social and Community Psychiatry

      • Milton Greenblatt

      Pages 3-13

   3. Linking the Public Mental Health System With Academia (UCLA)

      • Milton H. Miller

      Pages 14-23

   4. Psychiatry and Legal Regulation: Thirty Years of Beneficence or Three Decades of Bedevilment?

      • Mark J. Mills, Mark S. Lipian

      Pages 24-35

   5. Human Sexuality and Law: Three Decades of Transition

      • Richard Green

      Pages 36-43

   6. Reflections on Psychiatry and the Death Penalty

      • Hugo Adam Bedau

      Pages 44-52

   7. Violence, Personality, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Developmental and Political Perspectives

      • Robert S. Pynoos

      Pages 53-65

   8. Medical Ethics

      • Bernard Towers

      Pages 66-75

3. Anthropological and Sociocultural Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-78

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   2. Louis Jolyon West and the Ecological Model of Psychiatric Disorders: A Lecture in Medical History—October 6, 2024

      • Michael T. McGuire

      Pages 79-88

   3. Psychohistorical View of Transcultural Psychiatry

      • Joe Yamamoto

      Pages 89-98

   4. Contemporary Psychiatry: Racial Perspectives on the Past and Future

      • Chester M. Pierce

      Pages 99-109

   5. Mental Health Among Hispanic Americans: Four Decades of Research

      • Marvin Karno

      Pages 110-120

   6. Jikuri, the Tarahumara Peyote Cult: An Interpretation

      • Alfonso Paredes, Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón

      Pages 121-129

   7. Cults, Coercion, and Contumely

      • Margaret Thaler Singer, Marsha Emmer Addis

      Pages 130-142

4. Brain and Behavior and Mental Phenomena

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-144

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   2. Advances in Biological Psychiatry

      • Anthony Kales, Alexandros N. Vgontzas

      Pages 145-162

   3. Positron Emission Tomography Studies of Brain Function in Depression and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

      • Lewis R. Baxter Jr

      Pages 163-172

   4. On the Interaction of Genetic and Epigenetic Factors During Language Development: A Quantitative Histological Study

      • Arnold B. Scheibel, Rod Simonds

      Pages 173-181

Psychiatry has undergone a dynamic evolution in the last 40 years, an evolution to which Dr. Louis West made many contributions. Psychiatry today and Dr. West's career are intertwined in a mosaic of interaction. It is therefore fitting that this compilation of essays in honor of Dr. West is entitled The Mosaic of Contemporary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives. The papers collectively form a snapshot of the field of psychiatry today. Each chapter offers a historical perspective of the topic discussed, followed by a description of modern day issues and a look at the future of psychiatry. This book will enhance the knowledge and technical skills of psychiatrists as well as other clinicians in the mental health care field.

• Motivation
• Psychiatrie
• brain
• depression
• emotion
• psychiatric disorder
• psychiatry
• psychiatry, contemporary
• sexuality
• stress
• suicide

• Department of Psychiatry, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, USA

  Anthony Kales

• Central Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, USA

  Anthony Kales

• Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA

  Chester M. Pierce

• Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, USA

  Chester M. Pierce

• Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

  Milton Greenblatt

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