Top

Published in:

01-12-2011 | Original Paper

Remembering Albert Deutsch, an Advocate for Mental Health

Author: Kenneth J. Weiss

Published in: Psychiatric Quarterly | Issue 4/2011

Abstract

Albert Deutsch, journalist, advocate for the mentally ill, and honorary APA Fellow died 50 years ago. Author of The Mentally Ill in America and The Shame of the States, he believed in the obligation of individuals and institutions to advocate for patients. In 1961, he was in the midst of a vast project to assess the state of the art in psychiatric research. This article recalls aspects of Deutsch’s life and work and places him in the historical context of individuals who have shown great compassion for disabled persons.

Brand JL: Albert Deutsch: Historian as social reformer. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 18:149–157, 1963PubMedCrossRef

Deutsch A: The Mentally Ill in America, a History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times. New York, Doubleday Doran, 1937

Deutsch A: The Shame of the States. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1948

Deutsch A: Encyclopedia of Mental Health. New York, Franklin Watts, 1963CrossRef

Kenworthy ME: In memoriam. Albert Deutsch (1905–1961). The American Journal of Psychiatry 118:1064–1068, 1962

Schreiber J: In memoriam. Albert Deutsch, 1905–1961. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 31:829–831, 1961

Duhl L: Albert Deutsch. Manuscript of letter dated June 19, 1961. Accessed from the Menninger Institution Archives of the Kansas State Historical Society, March 24, 2007

Viola W: Bernard Papers, Archives and Special Collections. Columbia University Medical Center. Accessed July 11, 2007

http://www.psych.org/MainMenu/EducationCareerDevelopment/Library.aspx

10.

Cassedy JH: Muckraking and medicine: Samuel Hopkins Adams. American Quarterly 16:85, 1964. http://history.nih.gov/research/downloads/PL88-164.pdf99

11.

Anonymous: Campaigner. TIME, August 9, 1948, p. 42. Accessed online at www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794464,00.html on February 14, 2007

12.

Records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (June 20, 2008) and the United States Office of Personnel Management (September 9, 2008)

13.

Editor: Philadelphia Hospital. Phila Med Times 586–587, June 14, 1873

14.

Ray I: What shall Philadelphia do for its paupers? Penn Monthly 4:226–238, 1873

15.

Deutsch A: Psychiatry as state medicine. American Journal of Psychiatry 100:184–190, 1944

16.

Wortis SB: Book review: The Shame of the States. American Journal of Public Health 39:1053–54, 1949CrossRef

17.

Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill, hearings before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 87th Cong., First Session, March 28, 1961 (statement of Albert Deutsch), pp. 40–54

18.

http://history.nih.gov/research/downloads/PL88-164.pdf. Accessed October 10, 2010

Title: Remembering Albert Deutsch, an Advocate for Mental Health
Author: Kenneth J. Weiss
Publication date: 01-12-2011
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Psychiatric Quarterly / Issue 4/2011
Print ISSN: 0033-2720
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6709
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-011-9175-1

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Remembering Albert Deutsch, an Advocate for Mental Health

Abstract

Keynote webinar | Spotlight on medication adherence

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 4/2011

Complex Interaction Between Symptoms, Social Factors, and Gender in Social Functioning in a Community-Dwelling Sample of Schizophrenia

Implications of Antisocial Parents

The Association Between Somatic Symptoms, Anxiety Disorders and Substance Use. A Literature Review

Factors Associated with Mental Health Utilization Among Minorities Following the Second Lebanon War in Israel

The Residential Care Alternative for the Acutely Psychotic Patient

A Day in the Life of a Public Psychiatry Fellow