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11 J. Offender Counseling, Services & Rehab. 1 (1986-1987)

handle is hein.journals/wjor11 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL On the Mental Health of Prisoners About twenty-five years ago I attended a meeting for members of an association for the psychiatric treatment of offenders. It was held in Washington, D.C. and most of those in attendance, like most of the membership itself, consisted of psychiatrists in private practice in the District of Columbia. Several perceptions at that meeting have remained over all the time that has passed. First, in the entire nation twenty-five years ago there were only five or six psychiatrists engaged in the full time practice of treating incarcerated offenders. Second, most of the members of the association earned a very good livelihood by treating high level employees of the United States Government who lived in constant fear of their jobs and reputation because of their avowed homosexuality. Third, everybody at the meeting agreed that all prisoners suffered from one or more mental illnesses. For a non psychiatrist, like myself, the meeting provided a profound and enduring learning experience. Somewhat earlier, there was another profound learning experience related to the men- tal health of prisoners. About thirty years ago as I was about to teach a college class in Criminology for the first time I was urged by the Chairman to use a certain book as the required text for the course. He was one of three Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation Vol. 1 1(l), Fall/Winter 1986 © 1986 by The Haworth Press, Inc. Alt rights reserved.

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