W. Gray - General Systems Theory and Psychiatry

Contributing Authors

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Silvano Arieti, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College, New York

Edgar H. Auerswald, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Chief of Psychiatric Services, Gouverneur Health Services Program of Beth Israel Medical Center, New York

Warren M. Brodey, M.D.

Associate, Environmental Ecology Laboratory, Boston; formerly of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Edward J. Carroll, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine,
Miami

E. Joseph Charny, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Staff, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh

Leonard J. Duhl, M.D.

Professor of Urban Social Policy and Public Health, University of California,
Berkeley

Roy R. Grinker, Sr., M.D.

Director, Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training,
Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago

Morris Hansell, M.D.

Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston; formerly Rockford Zone Director, H. Douglas Singer Zone Center of the Illinois Department of Mental Health, Rockford

Don D. Jackson, M.D.

Late Director, Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto

Julian S. Kaiser, M.D.

Medical Director, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

H. Peter Laqueur, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; Supervising Psychiatrist, Creedmoor State Hospital, Queens Village, New York

John Maclver, M.D.

Director, Psychiatric Services, United States Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh

Judd Marmor, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles; Director, Divisions of Psychiatry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles

Jules H. Masserman, M.D.

Professor and Co-chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago

Karl A. Menninger, M.D.

The Menninger Foundation, Topeka; Senior Consultant, Stone-Brandel Center, Chicago

James G. Miller, M.D., Ph.D.

Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cleveland State University, Cleveland

Norman L. Paul, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston

Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin, M.D.

Professor and Associate Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, Oklahoma City

Howard P. Rome, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, University of Minnesota; Senior Consultant in Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester

Jurgen Ruesch, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco; Director, Section of Social Psychiatry, The Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, San Francisco

Albert E. Scheflen, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Acting Research Director, Bronx State Hospital, Bronx

John P. Spiegel, M.D.

Professor of Social .Psychiatry, Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Montague Ullman, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center; Director, Department of Psychiatry, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn

Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Ph.D.

Faculty Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo

Raymond W. Waggoner, Sr., M.D., Sc.D.

Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School; Director, Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Preface

DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS a rapidly increasing interest in general systems theory has grown among psychiatrists, creating an urgent need for basic reference books on this subject. This volume focuses on the history and development of general systems theory and of psychiatric interest in this area. General Theoretical Considerations, the first part of the book, is primarily the editorial responsibility of William Gray. The second, Specific Theoretical Considerations, is under the supervision of Nicholas D. Rizzo, and the third, General Systems Theory in Action, of Frederick J. Duhl. Many of the chapters are by pioneers in the field.

In accordance with the theme of general systems theory and psychiatry, our authors, with one exception, are all psychiatrists; the exception is an Honorary Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. We leave it to other books, now fortunately beginning to appear, to present the views of general systems theoreticians primarily identified with other fields and sciences.

W. G. F. J. D.

N. D. R.

Acknowledgment

WE WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE the extreme helpfulness of our wives, Lucille Gray, Bunny Duhl, and Muriel Rizzo, in preparing this book for publication. Without their steadfast support, their love, and their wisdom, we would not have been able to survive the multiple and variegated problems that have arisen over the past five years in developing the idea of general systems theory and psychiatry, in the planning and organization of programs on this subject for the American Psychiatric Association, and in the preparation of the book itself. Lucille Gray deserves our particular appreciation, for she has served throughout the years as an ever-cheerful, encouraging, and efficient executive secretary and coordinator.