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American History in Video

American History in Video  (expires November 30th)
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 1526 titles, with new videos from California Newsreel and PBS, equalling approximately 528 hours.

Psychiatry- Online

Psychiatry Online Featured Book of the Month for November

Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective, by Melvin Sabshin, M.D.
Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, other mental health workers, behavioral scientists, and university medical and neuroscience professionals will benefit from this articulate insider's view of post-World War II psychiatry in Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective, by Melvin Sabshin, M.D.

Dr. Sabshin served as Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for 23 years, from 1974 to 1997, during a period of perhaps the greatest change in psychiatry since World War II produced a dramatic modification of practice.

The author describes in detail two extraordinary periods of change, the first stimulated by laudatory efforts to understand the high rate of psychiatric casualties among World War II veterans and to provide treatment for them. Psychiatry grew quickly during the postwar years, considerably influenced by the immigration of many Central European psychoanalysts. Gradually, however, psychiatry began to weaken its ties to medicine and lost much of its public respect. By the 1970s, postwar optimism had been replaced by widespread concern that psychiatric practice was being dominated by unsubstantiated formulations rather than reliable evidence. Psychiatry was dramatically impacted by enormous pressure for therapeutic accountability exerted by a managed care reimbursement system. The profession recognized the need for a new direction and resolved to change.

In the foreword to the book, current APA Medical Director James H. Scully Jr., M.D., notes that Dr. Sabshin has woven a personal journey of the history of the intellectual conflicts and changes in the field of psychiatry in the post-war era, culminating in the remedicalization of psychiatry and the development of the DSM-III.

Dr. Sabshin encourages psychiatric professionals to change the field so it can employ an empirically based "bio-psycho-social" model that has the potential to revitalize the next phase of American psychiatry. He details how the potential for the future of psychiatry can be enhanced by today's practicing professionals, stressing:

* the need to incorporate the rapid developments of neuroscience into a professional practice that is increasingly integrated with empirically demonstrated psychological and social influences upon mental illness.

* the importance on continued research that is fed back into practice and keeps the professional evidence-based.

* the need of psychoanalysis to make its beliefs explicit, formulating hypotheses that can be tested scientifically in order to be employed reliably in evidence-based practice.

This well-crafted historical account describes how the profession has become a more respected and accountable part of medicine and how it scientific credentials have risen as a result. Dr. Sabshin concludes that the use of psychological understanding and psychotherapies must play a major role combined with psychopharmacology in the treatment of psychiatric patients.

UpToDate

UpToDate
UpToDate is the largest clinical community in the world dedicated to synthesizing knowledge for clinicians and patients. Our community includes more than 4,000 expert clinicians who function as authors, editors and peer reviewers and over 360,000 users who provide feedback and questions to our editorial group. Our role is to facilitate interaction among members of the health care community and to synthesize and disseminate information in order to help doctors be better doctors ... UpToDate covers more than 7,700 topics in 14 medical specialties and includes more than 80,000 pages of text, graphics, links to Medline abstracts, more than 260,000 references, and a drug database. Our physician editors and authors review and update the content continuously. An updated version of UpToDate is released every four months ... UpToDate includes treatment recommendations based on the best medical evidence. Recommendations are kept current as new studies are released and practices change. We are now grading our recommendations, so you can assess their strength and the quality of the evidence more quickly. For more details, please see our editorial policy ... More than 4,000 physician authors and editors, who are experts in their respective fields, write topic reviews that cover all the major aspects of a particular condition, including symptoms, tests and diagnosis, and treatment options. All topics are also subjected to rigorous peer review ... UpToDate is evidence-based and uses a literature-driven updating system; more than 430 journals are monitored by editors and authors, and anytime something of importance is published, it is incorporated into the program. The key word here is "incorporated." UpToDate is not a journal watch. New studies are not simply added, but rather they are placed in the context of what has already been published in that field.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers

ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text images of the following newspapers -

The Chicago Defender (1910-1975) is a unique full image archive comprised of one of the most influential African-American newspapers in the United States. With more than half of its circulation outside of its home base in Chicago, The Chicago Defender provides an African American perspective on major historical events and issues.

Historical Chicago Tribune (1849-1986).  This database offers full-text and full-image articles from the Historical Chicago Tribune including digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files.

The Historic Detroit Free Press (1831-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

The Historic St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922) offer full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

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