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IN his three Salmon Memorial Lectures before the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. D. M. Levy traced the growth of modern psychiatry and showed its influence on psychiatric thought. Dr. Levy commenced his career in the Illinois Institute for Juvenile Research in 1920. The study of delinquency was then very much under the influence of the work of Dr. William Healy, and was beginning to be applied to criminology. Healy himself was building upon the foundations laid by Meyer, Binet and Freud. Meyer had developed the view that behaviour is a reaction to environment, and under him psychiatry became the study of purpose and response. Binet had opened the way to the measurement of mental powers by his work on school-children, and Freud had stripped away illusions to show the real motivation behind conduct. The result of their impact upon Healy was his book, “Mental Conflict and Misconduct”.
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GROWTH OF MODERN PSYCHIATRY*. Nature 159, 38–39 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159038a0
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