Reminiscences of Robert H. Felix : oral history, 1963.

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Reminiscences of Robert H. Felix : oral history, 1963.

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Family background, medical education; psychiatric residency; work in Missouri psychiatric hospital and Federal Narcotics Farm; responsibilities as Public Health Service Chief of Mental Hygiene Division; establishment, growth of national Institute of Mental Health; conceptualizing community-based mental health programs; establishment of Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry; Public Health Service and Congressional pressures on National Institute of Mental Health programs; mental health research programming.

Transcript: 73 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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