Private Practice of Psychiatry

BY private practice of psychiatry we refer to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illness by properly qualified and licensed physicians acting on their own authority and responsibility rather than as paid employees of an institution or organization. Mental illness includes maladjustment of a crippling nature. The expansion of private psychiatric practice is dealt with by Dr. Jules V. Coleman in the present volume, and need not be repeated here. Since the First World War, more physicians have entered the private practice of psychiatry than have entered the public mental hospital systems. It is estimated that approximately 4,000 psychiatrists in their capacity as private practitioners each see an average of about 200 patients a year. This totals 800,000 patients, about the number that is cared for in public mental hospitals and public clinics

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