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58:, Brill convened a meeting of New York psychiatrists in 1953 to discuss the benefits of chlorpromazine use in the public sector psychiatric hospital system. Shortly thereafter, New York became the first state to use the new medication in its hospitals on a large scale. Following several successful pilot tests in 1954, the introduction of chlorpromazine for general use in the patient population in January 1955 led to the first decrease in the New York state psychiatric hospital census during peacetime, as described in analyses published by Brill and Robert Patton in 1957. The advent of wide 42:
from 1958 to 1976. At its height in the mid-1950s, Pilgrim was the largest mental institution in the world, with a census of 13,875 patients. Brill also served as Deputy Commissioner of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene from 1959 to 1964.
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2nd Edition (DSM-II). Brill also served as a member of the 1970s National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (the
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use in the public psychiatric hospital systems of the United States was a key factor in the eventual rise of the
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Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
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Introduction of Chlorpromazine Treatment of Mental Illness in North America
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Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness
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United States National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (1972).
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United States National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (1972).
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from 1960 to 1965 and was notable for supporting committee member
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Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy
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Brill was a leader in the early use of the tranquilizer
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Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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psychiatrist
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Yale University
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
Brentwood, NY
chlorpromazine
psychosis
Smith Kline & French
antipsychotic medication
deinstitutionalization
American Psychiatric Association
Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics
Robert Spitzer
homosexuality
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Shafer Commission
Introduction of Chlorpromazine Treatment of Mental Illness in North America
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.114.6.509
Recalling APA's Historic Step
"Psychiatrists Review Stand on Homosexuals"
The New York Times
Marihuana: a symbol of misunderstanding
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17346935W
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center
Congressional Record Entry, June 28, 1990
New York Times obituary, June 18, 1990.
Marihuana: a symbol of misunderstanding
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