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The Sesquicentennial Celebration of the American Psychiatric Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sydney Brandon*
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, Clinical Sciences Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, PO Box 65, Leicester LE2 7LX
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The annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association is always something of a jamboree but this year its Sesquicentennial Celebration (1844–1994), held in its birthplace Philadelphia PA, was especially splendid with a birthday gala held in the elegant and richly endowed Art Gallery. However, attendance at the Philadelphia meeting was disappointing with only 15,000 delegates.

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