Laura Hirshbein Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Laura Hirshbein is professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She completed her MD and psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan, and also completed a PhD in the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century was published by Rutgers University Press in 2009. Her second book, Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America was published in 2015, also with Rutgers University Press. She is currently completing a project on the history of mood and behavior disorders in children that has been supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award Program. Participant In: The Future of Psychiatry Saturday, November 10th, 2018 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Psychoanalysis ushered a new era of understanding psychiatric conditions which lasted half a century. The advent of psychopharmacology moved the focus back to the importance of diagnosis and selection of the appropriate medication. As we learn more about the brain, with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are looking towards a revolution in diagnosis, etiology and treatment… read more »
The Future of Psychiatry Saturday, November 10th, 2018 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » Psychoanalysis ushered a new era of understanding psychiatric conditions which lasted half a century. The advent of psychopharmacology moved the focus back to the importance of diagnosis and selection of the appropriate medication. As we learn more about the brain, with increasingly sophisticated technology, we are looking towards a revolution in diagnosis, etiology and treatment… read more »