Aim and Method in Treatment: Twenty Years of British and American Psychiatry

Abstract

This Address tonight will mostly concern psychiatric treatment, and it must be quite exceptional, I think, for those of us, still in our late forties, to have lived through such a revolution in treatment as we have seen in the last twenty years in this country. In this revolution I believe we have seen Great Britain emerge as one of the countries now leading the world in the skilled, humane and all-round treatment of her mentally ill patients. There is obviously still very much that needs to be done, yet we must try not to underestimate what has already been achieved recently in this country.