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||[[William Malamud]] || style="text-align:center;"| 1959–1960 || [[Medical Research Director of the Scottish Rite Foundation a (CIA cutout).]]||<ref>Recent advances in neuro-physiological research. Scientific papers and discussions of a regional research conference held November 8-9, 1957, Montreal, Canada, under the joint auspices of the Dept. of Psychiatry of McGill University and the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Research, 1957-58.Edited by Donald Ewen Cameron and Milton Greenblatt. 1959 Editorial Board Louis Joyslen West, Eugene L Bliss, Leon J Epstein, David A Hamburg, Peter Knapp</ref>
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||[[Winfred Overholser Sr.]] || style="text-align:center;"|1947-1948||
||[[Winfred Overholser Sr.]] || style="text-align:center;"|1947-1948||[[superintendent St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Chairman of the Scottish Rite Research Committee (CIA cutout) also received money from the CIA predecessor US intelligence adjacency the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) head of the "truth drug" committee that experimented with mescaline as a truth drug in 1943.<ref>The C.I.A. Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists By Colin A. Ross</ref>]]<ref>''New York Times'': [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf res=F60D17F93C5812738DDDA10994DD405B8888F1D3 Lucy Freeman, "Psychiatry Held Misrepresented," May 18, 1948], accessed February 16, 2012</ref>
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||[[Samuel W. Hamilton]] || style="text-align:center;"|1946–1947||
||[[Samuel W. Hamilton]] || style="text-align:center;"|1946–1947||
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||[[Karl M. Bowman]] || style="text-align:center;"|1944–1946||
||[[Karl M. Bowman]] || style="text-align:center;"|1944–1946||Was the chief medical officer at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital the first CIA LSD research center; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1921–1936) Conducted research on schizophrenia and the use of insulin shock procedures that was adopted and implemented by the CIA's MKULTRA Sub project 68 focusing on destroying large blocks of memory of patients under the cover story of attempting to cure schizophrenia (See Dr. Robert S. Garber APA president 1970–1971 the insulin shock torture of Nobel Laureate Dr. John Nash). Dr. Bowman was
the first chairman and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute at the University of California San Francisco Hospital from (1941–1956) where he worked with former OSS/CIA employee Dr. Gregory Bateson who received funding from the CIA cutout the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Dr. Bowman was also a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the head of the Laguna Honda Psychiatric Hospital in San Francisco (1941–1967)<ref>Roizen, Ron. "Origins of the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol".The American Discovery of Alcoholism 1933-1939. Retrieved 2011-07-13</ref> Bowman along with Dr. Earl Miller from 1948-1949 under the auspices of testing thyroid function of schizophrenics. <ref>Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Sponsor Index To Experiments Of Research Interest Final Listing, As Of June 9,1995 http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/radiation/dir/mstreet/research/exper/spolist.txt (retrieved 2/14/15)</ref>There were sixty five subjects, the majority of the participants were marginalized subjects mislabeled with the standard schizophrenic cover story. The subjects were injected with 150 microcuries of radioactive iodine-131 with the stated goal to test if there was a change in thyroid function by the tests in patients during or after insulin shock. The study reports marked drop in their radioactive iodine uptake curve as they improved during electroshock therapy, According to Dr. Miller nothing was accomplished. <ref>Bowman, K.M., E.R. Miller, M.E. Dailey, A. Simon, B. Frankel, and G.W. Lowe. "Thyroid Function in Mental Disease Measured with Radioactive Iodine, I131." The American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 106, No. 7, February 1950. "</ref> the work according to Miller was classified, the records were inconclusive that the subjects had consented.<ref>Interview with Dr. Earl R. Miller M.D. Setting: August 9 and 17. 1994; San Rafael, CA Interviewers: Anna Berge (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Archives and Records Office) and Dr. Gregg Herken (Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments) Radioactive Iodine Uptake in Schizophrenia Patients </ref> Most of the nations radiation program tests were managed by Dr. Harold Hodge who was responsible for the CIA's Mkultra sub projects 17 and 46. Bowman Electronarcosis (induced unconsciousness by passing a weak electric current through the brain) administered to a group of 53 patients, 37 of which were schizophrenics, there was no value in the treatment of psychoneurotics and reckoned that it was equal to electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenia, fractures of the spine occurred in 15 of the 53 patients tortured. It was determined that electronarcosis was more damaging than insulin shock procedures.<ref> American Journal of Psychiatry Volume 105 Issue 1, July 1948, pp. 15-27 Studies In Electronarcosis Therapy Karl M. Bowman; Alexander Simon</ref> Dr. Joseph Hamilton was a U.C. Berkeley physician who participated in a secret program of radiation experiments performed on unwitting subjects at the University of California San Francisco Hospital during the time that Bowman was directly affiliated with the hospital.

They injected plutonium into three victims; one of the victims was Elmer Allen who injured his left knee in an accident. On July 14, 1947 Elmer Allen had been misdiagnosed suffering from cancer. Allen was injected with Plutonium in the left calf on July 18, 1947. The leg was amputated three days later, a consent form in the government file signed by Allen, did not detail what he was told, and his family described he did not understood what had happened. Elmer Allen began to tell people that he had been used as a guinea pig for plutonium injection study. Dr. David Williams diagnosed Allen as paranoid schizophrenic and made believe he was treating him for non existent schizophrenia. The radiation study continued until his death at the age of 80 in 1991. It was not until after his death that the truth came out that Allen was not mentally ill but really honestly telling the truth, it was shameful that no one in his family ever believed him while he was alive, they all felt betrayed by what they thought were medical professionals. This phenomena happens to all victims who are purposely iotrogenicly diagnosed with mental illness in a remotely managed deception campaign using classified technology designed to adversely manage the family interactions with the tortured victims to ensure the testing results remains out of the public domain. Dr. Hamilton became a researcher for the U.S. Army From 1949-1952l he was an adviser on weapons tests that scattered radiation to the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah he died in 1957 at age 49 of leukemia brought on by exposure to radiation. His death was listed as an industrial accident. After his death Dr. Austin Brues, the scientist at the Center for Human Radiobiology at Argone, learned that Elmer was in the hospital and sent a memo stating, should Elmer Allen show terminal signs at any time, we would appreciate a collect call to us at Argonne. When Elmer Allen died he was cremated and his remains were confiscated and studied.<ref>The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War – October 10, 2000 by Eileen Welsome</ref> A similar method was used with almost 1000 victims of Jonestown who were cremated and allegedly all buried in a mass grave in Oakland California. A large portion of the members of the Jonestown cult were former patients that Jones recruited from closed California state mental institutes, many from the Mendocino hospital. The California Memorial Project disclosed the facts that from the mid 1880s to the 1960s, more than 45,000 people died while living in a state medical institutions. Their remains are for the most part in unmarked mass grave sites, this was a common practice in many states at psychiatric hospitals. In 2001 and 2006, then Senator Wesley Chesbro introduced legislation (SB 1448; SB 258) to establish the California Memorial Project (CMP) and expand its purpose. The combined intent of the two pieces of legislation was to: Identify the location of all grave sites at existing state hospitals and developmental centers; Identify the names of the patients whose remains were donated for medical research, and the entity which the remains were donated <ref>http://www.dsh.ca.gov/Hospitals/CMP_FactSheet.asp</ref> 500,000 to 2 million victims were experimented without their knowledge <ref> A Congressional subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC on September 28, 1994 revealed that 500,000 and possibly more Americans were endangered by secret defense related tests between 1940 and 1974, including covert experiments with radioactive materials, mustard gas, LSD, and biological agents. For example, between 1949 and 1969, the Army released radioactive compounds in 239 cities to study the effects.</ref> <ref> according to General Accounting Office testimony the hearings.Other secret tests were conducted on prisoners, terminally ill patients, military personnel, hospital patients,even children. At the time of the hearings, GAO officials stressed that the number of victims might increase, as new information was uncovered from Pentagon, CIA and the NSA.</ref> SA, and Energy Department files. The Committee had its origins when public controversy developed surrounding human radiation experiments that were conducted half a century ago. <ref>In November 1993, the Albuquerque Tribune published a series of articles that, for the first time, publicly revealed less than 1% of the names of Americans who had been injected with plutonium, the man-made material that was a key ingredient of the atom bomb.</ref> Reporter Eileen Welsome put a human face to what had previously been anonymous data published in official reports and technical journals. "As World War II was ending," she wrote, "Doctors in the United States injected a number of hospitalized patients with plutonium, most of the victims procedures were executed without their knowledge or consent. The injections were part of a group of experiments to determine how plutonium courses through the human body. The experiments, and the very existence of plutonium, were shrouded in secrecy."<ref>The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War by Eileen Welsome October 10, 2000</ref>
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||[[Dr. Edward Strecker]] || style="text-align:center;"|1943–1944||graduated from Jefferson university in 1911 Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931) Dr. Strecker was among the prominent psychiatrists in Philadelphia who were active in the training of physicians in that specialty, both in the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania was preceded by Dr. Michael A. Burns. Dr. Strecker continued his activities as teacher, writer, lecturer, and man of national prominence at the University one of the four men (with Drs. Earl Bond (APA 1929-1930) , Lauren H. Smith, and Kenneth E. Appel(APA 1953–1954) who trained and placed 29 professors of psychiatry around the country during the tenure of their work there. Dr. Robert S. Garber (APA 1970–1971 former military officer, who returned to active teaching at Jefferson. He was also the Clinical Director and later President of the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, New Jersey, Both Drs. Garber and Dr. John E. Davis had been on the staff of the Trenton State Hospital before the war<ref> Thomas Jefferson University tradition and heritage,edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, 1989 Jefferson History January 1989 Part III: Clinical Departments and Divisions ---
||[[Dr. Edward Strecker]] || style="text-align:center;"|1943–1944||Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911 Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931) <ref> Thomas Jefferson University tradition and heritage,edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, 1989 Jefferson History January 1989 Part III: Clinical Departments and Divisions ---
Chapter 29: Department of Psychiatry (pages 477-496) jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=wagner2</ref>
Chapter 29: Department of Psychiatry (pages 477-496) jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=wagner2</ref>
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Revision as of 18:16, 28 August 2015

Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

Name Year Notes
Renée Binder 2015–2016 Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Director, UCSF Department of Psychiatry [1]
Paul Summergrad 2014–2015 Dr. Frances S. Arkin Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Tufts Medical Center[2]
Jeffrey Lieberman 2013–2014 Chair of Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, principal investigator for the NIMH CATIE study [3]
Carolyn Robinowitz 2009-2010
Pedro Ruiz 2006-2007
Mary Jane England 2005-2006
Marcia Kraft Goin 2003-2004
Paul S. Appelbaum 2002-2003
Allan Tasman 1999-2000
Rodrigo A. Munoz 1998-1999
Harold Eist 1996–1997
Steven Sharfstein 1995-1996
Jerry M. Wiener 1994-1995
John McIntyre 1993–1994
Joseph T. English 1992-1993
Lawrence Hartmann 1991-1992
Elissa P. Benedek 1990-1991
Herbert Pardes 1989-1990
Paul Fink 1988-1989
George H. Pollock 1987-1988
Robert O. Pasnau 1986–1987
Carol Nadelson 1985-1986 First female president of the American Psychiatric Association.[4]

First female editor-in-chief of the American Psychiatric Association Press (1986).[5]
First director of Partners Office for Women's Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (1998).[5]

John A. Talbott 1984-1985 113th president[6]
George Tarjan 1983-1984
H. Kieth H. Brodie 1982-1983
Daniel X. Freedman 1981-1982
Donald G. Langsley 1980-1981
Alan A. Stone 1979-1980
Jules H. Masserman 1978-1979
Jack Weinberg 1977-1978
Robert W. Gibson (psychiatrist) 1976-1977
Judd Marmor 1975-1976
John Patrick Spiegel 1974-1975 103rd president[7]
Alfred M. Freedman 1973-1974 Led the effort to de-classify homosexuality as a mental illness.[8]
Perry Clement Talkingten 1972–1973
Ewald W. Busse 1971–1972
Robert S. Garber 1970–1971
Robert Waggoner 1969–1970
Lawrence C. Kolb 1968-1969
Henry W. Brosin 1967–1968
Harvey J. Tompkins 1966–1967
Howard P. Rome 1965–1966
Jack R. Ewalt 1963–1964
C. H. Hardin Branch 1962–1963
Walter E. Barton 1961–1962
Robert H. Felix 1960-1961
William Malamud 1959–1960
Francis J. Gerty 1958–1959
Harry C. Solomon 1957–1958
Francis J. Braceland 1956–1957
R. Finley Gayle Jr. 1955–1956
Aurther P. Noyes 1954–1955
Kenneth E. Appel 1953–1954
Donald Ewen Cameron 1952–1953
Leo H. Bartemeier 1951–1952
John C. Whitehorn 1950–1951 Psychiatrist in Chief from 1941-1960 at Johns Hopkins University and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.
George S. Stevenson 1949-1950
William Claire Menninger 1948-1949 [9]
Winfred Overholser Sr. 1947-1948
Samuel W. Hamilton 1946–1947
Karl M. Bowman 1944–1946
Dr. Edward Strecker 1943–1944 Graduated from Jefferson University in 1911 Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases (1925-1931) [10]
Aurther H. Ruggles 1942-1943
James King Hall 1941-1942
H. Douglas Singer 1941-1942 Died before taking office,
George H. Stevenson 1940-1941
William C. Sandy 1939-1940
Richard H. Hutchings 1938-1939
Ross McC. Chapman 1937-1938
C. Macfie Campbell 1936-1937
Clarence O. Cheney 1935-1936
C. Fred Williams 1934-1935
George H. Kirby 1933-1934
James V. May 1932-1933|
William L. Russell 1931-1932
Walter M English 1930-1931
Earl D. Bond 1929-1930
Samuel T. Orton 1928-1929
Adolf Meyer 1927-1928
George M Kline 1926-1927
C. Floyd Haviland 1925-1926
William A White 1924-1925
Thomas W. Salman 1923-1924
Henry W. Mitchell 1922-1923
Albert M. Barett 1921-1922
Owen Copp 1920-1921
Henry C Eman 1919-1920
Elmer E Southard 1918-1919
James V. Anglin 1917-1918
Charles G. Wagner 1916-1917
Edward N. Brush 1915-1916
Samuel E. Smith (psychiatrist) 1914-1915
Carlos Frederick MacDonald 1913-1914 [11]
James C. Searcy 1912-1913
Hubert Work 1911-1912
Charles W. Pilgrim 1910-1911
William F. Drewry 1909-1910
J.B. Andrews 1892-1893
Daniel Clark 1891-1892
H.P. Stearns 1890-1891 Organization name changed to American Medico-Psychological Association
W.W. Godding 1889-1890
John Chapin 1888-1889
Eugene Grissom 1887-1888
H.A. Buttolph 1886-1887
Orpheus Everts 1885-1886
Pliny Earle 1884-1885
John P. Gray 1883-1884
J.H. Callender 1882-1883
Clement Walker 1879-1882
Charles Nichols 1873-1879
John Butler 1870-1873
Thomas Story Kirkbride 1862-1870
Andrew McFarland 1859-1862
Isaac Ray 1855-1859
Luther Bell 1851-1855
William Awl 1848-1851
Samuel B. Woodward 1844-1848 First president, founded as the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane

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  2. ^ 22, 2015 "Faculty Bio - Paul Summergrad, MD". {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ "Jeffrey Lieberman, M.D." Columbia University Department of Psychiatry. 2005 to 2008. Retrieved May 26, 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Nadelson, T (1986). "Carol C. Nadelson, M.D., one hundred fourteenth president, 1985- 1986, American Psychiatric Association". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 143 (8): 959–61. PMID 3524277.
  5. ^ a b http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/physicians/biography_233.html[full citation needed]
  6. ^ Sabshin, M (1985). "John A. Talbott, M.D. One hundred thirteenth President, 1984-1985". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 142 (9): 1014–6. PMID 3895986.
  7. ^ Weinberg, J (1975). "John P. Spiegel, M.D. One hundred and third president, 1974-1975". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 132 (7): 700–2. PMID 1094840.
  8. ^ Grims, William (April 20, 2011). "Alfred Freedman, a Leader in Psychiatry, Dies at 94". The New York Times.
  9. ^ A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry By Edward Shorter A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry page 176
  10. ^ Thomas Jefferson University tradition and heritage,edited by Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD, 1989 Jefferson History January 1989 Part III: Clinical Departments and Divisions --- Chapter 29: Department of Psychiatry (pages 477-496) jdc.jefferson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1029&context=wagner2
  11. ^ "Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald, Alienist, is Dead. Appeared as an Expert in the Thaw, Czolgosz and Noel Homicide Cases. Was Active at Age of 80. Death Comes at His Central Valley Home. Formerly Had a Sanitarium". New York Times. June 2, 1926. Retrieved 2015-04-22.
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