The mental health sector and the social sciences in post-World War II USA. Part 1: Total war and its aftermath

This paper examines the impact ofWorldWar II and its aftermath on the mental health sector, and traces the resulting transformations in US psychiatry and psychology. Focusing on the years between 1940 and 1970, it analyses the growing federal role in funding training and research in the mental health sector, the dominance of psychoanalysis within psychiatry in these years, and the parallel changes that occurred in both academic and clinical...