Lectures on Mental Disease

Ralph Linton 1893-1953

Professor Ralph Linton, Sterling Professor of Anthropology at Yale since 1946 and one of the leading cultural anthropologists of this country, died on 24 December 1953 of a coronary attack. He had been a close friend and a great admirer of the chairman of his department, Wendell Bennett, who was so tragically drowned last September. The premature deaths of these two national leaders who were al...

Destiny and Disease in Mental Disorders

With special reference to the schizophrenic psychoses. By C. Macfie Campbell, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University. London: Chapman & Hall. 1935. pp. 207. 10/6 net. This is the first volume of publications on Psychiatric subjects which will be issued as * nomas W. Salmon Memorial Lectures in tribute 0, that mental physician who was a distinguished pioneer in modern American psychia...

Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases

Lectures on the Pathological Appearances Observed in the Bodies of the Insane. No. II

Racism as a Unique Social Determinant of Mental Health: Development of a Didactic Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents

Introduction Mental health disparities based on minority racial status are well characterized, including inequities in access, symptom severity, diagnosis, and treatment. For African Americans, racism may affect mental health through factors such as poverty and segregation, which have operated since slavery. While the need to address racism in medical training has been recognized, there are few...