A dynamic era of court psychiatry, 1914-1944 [Elektronisk resurs] / edited by Agnes A. Sharp.

• "The establishment of psychiatric clinics in the Municipal Court of Chicago thirty years ago, and in the Criminal Court of Cook County some years later were events of more than local importance. It was one of the pioneer efforts to render efficient and up-to-date service, something in which we in this country have been behind most other civilized countries. Medical science in laboratories and in general hospitals has developed up to and in many ways beyond standards set in other countries. But, restrained by legal tradition and hamstrung by politics, medicine here in some respects has lagged far behind, even behind countries less advanced in general medical science. We still have the antiquated non-medical coroner system to determine causes of death. Public institutions for the insane in a majority of states are more or less subject to the vagaries of partisan politics. The procedure for the determination of the mental state of persons accused of crime, or in need of guardianship or institutional care, is in most states cumbersome, inexpert and expensive. We lack the well equipped medico-legal institutions and the close cooperation between the courts and university psychiatric clinics long existing in most European and Latin-American countries. The impetus to the movement which led to the establishment of the clinic, the thirtieth anniversary of which we now commemorate, came from a woman. Just as Dorothea Dix stimulated the building of the first insane hospital in Illinois so Mrs. W. F. Dummer stimulated the cooperation of psychiatrists, judges, and lawyers by making possible the operation of the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute and choosing for its head such an outstanding leader as William Healy. The work in this modest institution on Maxwell Street opened the eyes of social and legal leaders and led to the organization of permanent psychiatric services, first in the Juvenile Court and very soon also in the Municipal and Criminal Courts"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved). 

Ämnesord

Psychiatric social work.  (LCSH)

Social Work, Psychiatric  (MeSH)

Institutionsnamn

Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Court. Psychiatric Institute.

Klassifikation

HV689 (LCC)

361.1 (DDC)

Ohf (kssb/8 (machine generated))