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Mental


1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness

1965 Henriette de Vreker-Verschuur, actress (Revolt in Mental Home), dies

1950 Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 (Davenport Ia)

1932 Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist

1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital

1907 Frederik of Oaths disbands mental home colony Walden

1876 Clifford Whittingham Beers, U.S., mental hygiene pioneer

1866 Adolf Meyer, U.S., psychiatrist/neurologist, pioneered mental hygiene

1802 Dorothea Dix, U.S., aroused interest in treatment of mental inmates


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