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Articles, Etc., by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, MD

Nathaniel S. Lehrman, MD, began practicing psychiatry in 1947, and at various times had a full time office practice in psychotherapy, was the Clinical Director of Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn, New York, and Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx and Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. In 1963 Dr. Lehrman had his own experience from the patient side of psychiatry when he was hospitalized for paranoid schizophrenia. Dr. Lehrman fully recovered and continued his psychiatric career, stating that key reasons for his recovery were running a mile a day in the hospital gym, playing his violin, and starting an intellectually challenging historical research project. Rethinking schizophrenia: its original nature, its drug-altered character, and thoughts about its treatment, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., October, 2005

Do Our Hospitals Help Make Acute Schizophrenia Chronic?, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Diseases of the Nervous System, Vol. XXII, No. 9 (1961).
Schizophrenia: An Alternate View, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., This Month in Mental Health, September, 1979, 6-7
Effective Psychotherapy of Chronic Schizophrenia, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., American Journal of Psychoanalysis, (1982), Vol.42, No. 2: 121-131.
Psychiatrists and Drugs, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Letters to the Long Island Editor, The New York Times, March 11, 1984.
Public Mental Health Care and Its Problems: Two Important New Books--What they Include and What they Omit, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Psychiatric Quarterly, 62:4, 323-331 (1991).
Chronic Patients' Power Games and the Proper Setting of Limits, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Psychiatric Quarterly, 62:1 67-74 (1991).
Recognizing Some of Psychiatry's Errors, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Letter to The New York Times, January 26, 1992.
The Bureaucratic Destruction of Patients' Faith in Their Doctors: Public Psychiatry's Negative Lesson's for General Medicine, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 71:2, 194-217 (1994).
Commentary: Ethical Problems in Psychiatric Research, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., and Vera Hassner Sharav, M.L.S., Journal of Mental Health Administration, 24:227-248 (1997).
The Rational Organization of Care for Disabling Psychosis: "If I Were Commissioner," by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, Ethical Human Sciences and Services, Vo. 5, No. 1:45-55 (2003)
The Dangers of Mental Health Screening, by Nathaniel S. Lehrman, M.D., Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Vol. 11, No. 3: 80-82 (2006).
Interview; Psychiatry: 60 Years in an Increasingly Corrupt Specialty

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