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Louis Jolyon West and the Ecological Model of Psychiatric Disorders: A Lecture in Medical History—October 6, 2024

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This morning’s lecture will focus on the career of Louis Jolyon West.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    Anthony Kales MD

  2. Central Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    Anthony Kales MD

  3. Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Chester M. Pierce MD

  4. Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Chester M. Pierce MD

  5. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, USA

    Milton Greenblatt MD

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McGuire, M.T. (1992). Louis Jolyon West and the Ecological Model of Psychiatric Disorders: A Lecture in Medical History—October 6, 2024. In: Kales, A., Pierce, C.M., Greenblatt, M. (eds) The Mosaic of Contemporary Psychiatry in Perspective. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9194-4_8

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