title: [A moment of reflection: dramatic path of Polish psychiatry].
abstract: In the inauguration speech of the Congress stages of the path taken by the Polish Psychiatric Society were described in short: 1--The period from its establishment till 1939; 2--Tragic years of the war, 1939-1945, with extermination of ca. 20,000 patients and many psychiatrists; 3--Reconstruction after the war, accompanied by the attempts to impose Soviet ideology, which induced finally effective resistance and intense development of the science and practice.
authors.affiliation: Przewodniczacy Sekcji Historii PTP, Instytutu Psychiatrii i Neurologii w Warszawie.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jaroszewski
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D011044:Poland; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*