Explain how the American Psychiatric Association came into being
Does anyone know how?
Answer: By the middle of the 1800s, superintendents of asylums for the insane were practically all physicians who had experience in the care of people with severe mental disorders. The Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane later became the American Psychiatric Association in 1844.
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