Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
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Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
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|| Alfred Freedman
|| 1973—1974 || Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.
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||John Patrick Spiegel
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||Adolf Meyer
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||Donald Ewen Cameron
|| style="text-align:center;"|1952–1953|| MK Ultra
proponent
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||J.B. Andrews || style="text-align:center;"|1892-1893||
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||Daniel Clark || style="text-align:center;"|1891-1892||
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|H.P. Stearns || style="text-align:center;"|1890-1891|| Organization name changed to American Medico-Psychological Association
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|W.W. Godding || style="text-align:center;"|1889-1890||
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|John Chapin || style="text-align:center;"|1888-1889||
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|Eugene Grissom || style="text-align:center;"|1888||
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|H.A. Buttolph || style="text-align:center;"|1887-1888||
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|Orpheus Everts || style="text-align:center;"|1885-1886||
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|Pliny Earle
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|John P. Gray || style="text-align:center;"|1883-1884||
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|J.H. Callender || style="text-align:center;"|1882-1883||
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|Clement Walker || style="text-align:center;"|1879-1882||
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|Charles Nichols || style="text-align:center;"|1873-1879||
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|John Butler || style="text-align:center;"|1871-1873||
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|Thomas Story Kirkbride
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|Andrew McFarland || style="text-align:center;"|1859-1862||
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|Isaac Ray
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|Luther Bell || style="text-align:center;"|1851-1855||
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|William Awl || style="text-align:center;"|1848-1851||
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|Samuel B. Woodward || style="text-align:center;"|1844-1848|| First president, founded as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane
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American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...
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|| Alfred Freedman
Alfred Freedman
Alfred Mordecai Freedman was an American psychiatrist. A long-time educator and advocate of social justice, Freedman is known for leading the effort to have the American Psychiatric Association de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.-Early life and education:Alfred Freedman was born January...
|| 1973—1974 || Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.
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||John Patrick Spiegel
John Patrick Spiegel
John Patrick Spiegel was an expert on violence and combat stress and the 103rd President of the American Psychiatric Association.-Biography:He was born on March 17, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois....
|| style="text-align:center;"|1974–1975 ||103rd president
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||Adolf Meyer
Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist)
Adolf Meyer, M.D., LL.D., , was a Swiss psychiatrist who rose to prominence as the president of the American Psychiatric Association and was one of the most influential figures in psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century...
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||Donald Ewen Cameron
Donald Ewen Cameron
Donald Ewen Cameron , commonly referred to as "D. Ewen Cameron" or "Ewen Cameron," was a twentieth-century Scottish-born psychiatrist who was involved in the United States Central Intelligence Agency's research on mind control and served as President of the Canadian, American and World Psychiatric...
|| style="text-align:center;"|1952–1953|| MK Ultra
Mk Ultra
Mk Ultra was an American alternative band that played between 1994 and 1999. The group formed in the Bay Area in the early nineties and went on to become a hit in local circles. Mk Ultra's career culminated in a national tour in 1999 but came to a rapid end when guitarist John Tyner decided to...
proponent
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||J.B. Andrews || style="text-align:center;"|1892-1893||
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||Daniel Clark || style="text-align:center;"|1891-1892||
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|H.P. Stearns || style="text-align:center;"|1890-1891|| Organization name changed to American Medico-Psychological Association
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|W.W. Godding || style="text-align:center;"|1889-1890||
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|John Chapin || style="text-align:center;"|1888-1889||
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|Eugene Grissom || style="text-align:center;"|1888||
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|H.A. Buttolph || style="text-align:center;"|1887-1888||
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|Orpheus Everts || style="text-align:center;"|1885-1886||
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|Pliny Earle
Pliny Earle (physician)
Pliny Earle II, MD was an American physician, psychiatrist, and poet.-Biography:Pliny Earle was born in Leicester, Massachusetts, and was the son of the inventor Pliny Earle....
|| style="text-align:center;"|1884-1885||
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|John P. Gray || style="text-align:center;"|1883-1884||
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|J.H. Callender || style="text-align:center;"|1882-1883||
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|Clement Walker || style="text-align:center;"|1879-1882||
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|Charles Nichols || style="text-align:center;"|1873-1879||
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|John Butler || style="text-align:center;"|1871-1873||
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|Thomas Story Kirkbride
Thomas Story Kirkbride
Thomas Story Kirkbride was a physician, advocate for the mentally ill, and founder of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane , a precursor to the American Psychiatric Association.-Early career:Born into a Quaker family in Morrisville, Pennsylvania,...
|| style="text-align:center;"|1862-1870||
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|Andrew McFarland || style="text-align:center;"|1859-1862||
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|Isaac Ray
Isaac Ray
Isaac Ray was an American psychiatrist, one of the founders of the discipline of forensic psychiatry. In 1838, he published A Treatise on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity , which served as an authoritative text for many years....
|| style="text-align:center;"|1855-1859||
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|Luther Bell || style="text-align:center;"|1851-1855||
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|William Awl || style="text-align:center;"|1848-1851||
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|Samuel B. Woodward || style="text-align:center;"|1844-1848|| First president, founded as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane
Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane
The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, also known as The Superintendents' Association, was organized in Philadelphia in October, 1844 at a meeting of 13 superintendents, making it the first professional medical specialty organization in the U.S...
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