Psychiatry - mental medicine - is a medical specialty. It has changed and will
continue to do so under the influence of extramedical developments. But
nonpsychiatrists writing psychiatric history will have to become acquainted with the
practical problems with which psychiatry has had to contend. The history of
psychiatry cannot be understood in purely intellectual terms, nor can it be shown
that humanism has been the guiding light of this medical specialty.
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