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

Biographical Note

Psychiatrist.

Scope and Contents

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.

Subjects

• Felix, Robert H. (Robert Hanna), 1904-1990.
• Health services administration.
• Interviews.
• Mental health--United States.
• Mental health education.
• Mental health facilities.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Psychiatry.
• United States. Public Health Service.