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Psychiatric Problems of the 1970's

Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Student Mental Health Services of the University of Florida Gainsville, Florida 32610

Sharon Hamilton, M.ED.

Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Student Mental Health Services of the University of Florida Gainsville, Florida 32610

Susan Webb, M.S.W.

Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Student Mental Health Services of the University of Florida Gainsville, Florida 32610

Katherine K. Gordon, M.A.

Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Student Mental Health Services of the University of Florida Gainsville, Florida 32610

Max Plutzky, M.D.

Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Student Mental Health Services of the University of Florida Gainsville, Florida 32610

This paper describes some of the social trends of the 1970's that may be affecting patterns of psychiatric needs and presents data showing their impact. It suggests possible psychiatric and sociopolitical responses to meet these needs. Patients were studied in the outpatient and inpatient services of the Shands Teaching Hospital and Student Mental Health Services at the University of Florida. The main findings were that single youth, both females and especially males, were requiring less help since the winding down of American participation in the Vietnam War, perhaps indicating that youth are feeling less alienated from the national effort. Black women are seeking help more than ever before, probably because the black liberation movement has offered them hope that psychiatry can help them. Despite the women's liberation movement, white women still remain the largest group of psychiatric outpatients, as they were in the 1950's and 1960's.

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 22, No. 4, 253-264 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/002076407602200403


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