Special Anniversary Track Reflects on Psychiatry’s Past, Present, and Future
In celebration of APA’s 175th anniversary, this year’s Annual Meeting is including a special track of sessions led by experts invited by APA President Altha Stewart, M.D. As a whole, the sessions give a broad overview of the evolution of the understanding of mental illness and the care of people with mental illness, as well as psychiatry’s remarkable transformation from colonial times to the present and its promise for the future. The track also includes sessions tracing the history of minority/underrepresented populations of psychiatrists and patients.