title: Holistic-medical foundations of American psychiatry: a bicentennial.
abstract: American psychiatry has reached its bicentennial. Holistic-medical foundations have been its hallmark, inspiration, and source of preeminence. Incorporated by psychobiology, the American school, they enabled the growth of psychiatry as a medical specialty and scientific discipline and stimulated unparalleled growth of general hospital psychiatry, psychiatric research and teaching, and psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry. Holistic conceptions, a product of a democratic system and the liberal mind, continue to provide the best framework for psychiatry and an antidote to dogma and fanaticism.
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006694:Holistic Health / Q000266:history*; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000266:history; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital / Q000266:history; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000266:history; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States