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APA PRACTICE ORGANIZATION COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY The small private asylums were quite successful for a number of years. There were only two in Massachusetts in 1879 and more than 20 by 1916. In addition, the asylums frequently started small and grew. The Newton Nervine asylum was a case in point. In 1892, N. Emmons Paine, a Boston University Medical School instructor, opened the Newton Nervine in his own home with four patients. Over the next 10 years, he added three buildings to accommodate a total of 21 patients. A reported increase in the number of mentally ill individuals over the course of the 19th century may have contributed to the success of the private asylums. “A good many people are beginning to realize that nervous diseases are alarmingly on the increase …. Nerves are the most ‘prominent’ complaint of the 19th century,” wrote one reporter in an 1887 issue of the Boston Globe. After World War I, mental health treatment changed yet again. The growing recognition that baths and electricity were not curing psychiatric illness combined with the failure of autopsies of mentally ill individuals to demonstrate brain lesions raised question about somatic explanations of psychiatric illness. Psychotherapy, which may well have been a tough sell to both patients and medical professionals before the war, clearly overtook the somatic treatments. While private asylums for the wealthy did not completely disappear, psychotherapy, which clinicians could offer in their offices, became the new standard of care for America’s well-todo. n Ellen Holtzman, PsyD, is a psychologist in private practice in Wakefield, Mass. Katharine S. Milar, PhD, of Earlham College is historical editor for “Time Capsule.” Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists (PEP) • An examination designed for use by psychology licensing authorities to implement laws permitting the prescribing of psychotropic medications by qualified psychologists • Secure and confidential banking of PEP scores for qualified graduates of postdoctoral psychopharmacology educational programs • Psychopharmacology training programs may use the PEP to fulfill exit requirements References • Beam, A. (2001). Gracefully insane: The Rise and Fall of America’s Premier Mental Hospital. New York: Public Affairs. • Bruce, H.A. (1910). Masters of the mind. American Magazine, 71-81. Retrieved from Boris Sidis archive website: www.sidis.net/ americanmagazine2.htm. • Caplan, E. (1998). Mind games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. • Grob, G. (1995) The mad among us: A history of the care of America’s mentally ill. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. • Hurd, H., ed. (1916). The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada, Vols. 1 and 2. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press. • Lutz, T. (1991). American nervousness, 1903: An anecdotal history. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. • Sidis, B. “Dr. Boris Sidis’ Maplewood Farms.” (1910) Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Retrieved from Boris Sidis archive website: www.sidis.net/portsmouthfloors.htm. 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 Phone: (202) 336-6100 Fax: (202) 336-5797 E-mail: apapocollege@apa.org Website: apapracticecentral.org M a rc h 2 0 1 2 • M o n i to r o n p s yc h o l o g y 27 http://www.sidis.net/americanmagazine2.htm http://www.sidis.net/americanmagazine2.htm http://www.apapracticecentral.org http://www.sidis.net/portsmouthfloors.htm http://www.apapracticecentral.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - March 2012

Monitor on Psychology - March 2012
Letters
President’s column
Contents
From the CEO
Supreme Court rejects eyewitness protections
New member benefit: prevention screenings
A psychodynamic treatment for PTSD shows promise for soldiers
Was ‘Little Albert’ ill during the famed conditioning study?
New research identifies ways to improve eyewitness identifications
In Brief
‘Our health at risk’
Perspective on Practice
APA endorses higher education guidelines
TIME CAPSULE
QUESTIONNAIRE
Random Sample
Judicial Notebook
Help for struggling veterans
Driving out cancer disparities
In the Public Interest
SCIENCE WATCH
Practice, virtually
The legal and ethical issues of virtual therapy
Psychologist PROFILE
EARLY CAREER PSYCHOLOGY
Bringing life into focus
Pay attention to me
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
Division Spotlight
Personalities

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