Upcoming Events

• The grand opening of the Rachel Upjohn Building occurs in October, 2006. This impressive new facility will house the Department of Psychiatry’s child/adolescent and adult ambulatory clinics, addiction treatment services, as well as the U-M Comprehensive Depression Center. Opening events include a department-wide open house, a formal dinner hosted by Mike Wallace for major donors to the Depression Center and the Department of Psychiatry, a gala for U-M, Medical School and Health System special guests, and a Community Open House on November 12th. All events will incorporate highlights of the U-M Psychiatry Centennial with displays that illustrate the tremendous growth and change of the department over the century.
  
• 2006 Medical School Reunion Reception - Psychiatry Alumni attending this year’s reunion (classes ending in ’01 and ’06) will be invited for refreshments and a special tour and faculty panel discussion at the Rachel Upjohn Building on Friday, October 20th.
  
• “The History of Psychiatry in Michigan” exhibit at the Museum on Main Street in Ann Arbor. This exhibit will take place from September through November and will provide an historical look at the major changes in people and institutions, treatment and diagnosis over the century of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. This exhibit will particularly focus on mental health treatment, especially for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, as it has changed and affected patients in Washtenaw County and the state of Michigan.
  
• “Medicine at Michigan” – The Department of Psychiatry and its history will be the focus of an article in the fall issue of the U-M Medical School’s quarterly publication.
  
• The Annual Raymond Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine will be held on November 15th this year and will be comprised of two lectures given by Howard Markel, MD, PhD, George E. Wantz Professor and Director of the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine. Dr. Markel will present Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds on November 15th at 10:30 a.m., and a special lecture at the BSRB Auditorium at 4:00 p.m. on the history of addiction and psychiatry. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the BSRB atrium. This event honors Dr. Raymond Waggoner, Department Chair from 1937 – 1970.
  
• The Ann Arbor District Library Speaker Programs. The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry is collaborating with the Ann Arbor District Library to present a series of four educational lectures intended for the general public in order to celebrate a century of the department's connections to the community. The first of these will feature several faculty who will facilitate a public discussion on life after 9/11. The remaining lectures (November 2006, January 2007, March 2007) will be on the topics of schizophrenia, brain stimulation, and adolescent brain development.
  
• A second Film Series is being developed in collaboration with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. This series will take place at the Michigan Theater from January – February, 2007.

Ongoing happenings

• The Centennial Year Grand Round Series has been organized around the general theme of what history has to teach us about the future of psychiatry. Past speakers have included Paul McHugh, MD, from the Johns Hopkins University, John Helzer, MD, from the University of Vermont; Jean Endicott, PhD, from Columbia University; and Edward Shorter, PhD, from the University of Toronto. Speakers for the coming year include Mark Micale, PhD, from the University of Illinois, and David Lynn, MD, from Thomas Jefferson University.
  
• Oral Histories. Dr. Hirshbein has begun the process of conducting interviews of older psychiatrists in Michigan in order to collect their histories. These interviews will be transcribed and will be deposited with the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan and will be a lasting record of the range of training and experience of the state's psychiatrists.

Past Events

• “The History of Psychiatry in Film” – A Film Series held at the Michigan Theater on Sundays from January through April 2006. Prior to each film, a faculty member from the University of Michigan provided context to help the audience understand how the film fit into the history of psychiatry. Films featured included: The Snake Pit (commentary by Dr. Jonathan Metzl), Vertigo (commentary by Dr. Oliver Cameron), The Three Faces of Eve (commentary by Dr. Kenneth Silk), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (commentary by Dr. Howard Markel), Ordinary People (commentary by Dr. Laura Hirshbein), As Good As It Gets (commentary by Dr. Joseph Himle), and Analyze This (commentary by Dr. Josh Erlich).
  
• The Michigan Psychiatric Society Spring Symposium – co-sponsored by the U-M Psychiatry Centennial Fund and the Michigan Psychiatric Society. This year’s symposium was held in Plymouth, Michigan at the St. John's Center in April of 2006. It was attended by more than 100 members, an excellent turnout for the MPS spring meeting. The topic of the symposium was history in psychiatry, and the featured speakers included Professors Nancy Tomes (SUNY Stony Brook) and Jonathan Sadowsky (Case Western University). Several life members of the Michigan Psychiatric Society also provided their life history perspective. The afternoon portion of the symposium included discussion about the role of history in residency training.
  
• The Annual Psychoanalytic Teaching Faculty Dinner, an annual event to celebrate the role of the teaching faculty who contribute to the department by supervising residents in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, was held in May at the Michigan League. This event, which was cosponsored by the Department of Psychiatry and supporter Robert Hunt Berry, featured Dr. Ronald Benson who discussed the history of the child psychiatry program at the University of Michigan.

Partnerships

We have reached out to the community by working with the following organizations throughout our Centennial year . We extend our sincerest thanks to each of them for their invaluable assistance and support.

• Center for the History of Medicine. Dr. Howard Markel and Professor Alexandra Stern have provided support, advice, and mentorship throughout this Centennial celebration.
  
• Program in Society and Medicine. Dr. Joel Howell and the PSM generously supported a dessert reception in honor of the final film in the Michigan Theater film series in the spring of 2006.
  
• Michigan Psychiatric Society. Thanks to the support of Kathleen Gross and Wendell Simmons of MPS, as well as an endowment given to MPS to support educational activities, the spring symposium of the MPS was able to be devoted to the history of psychiatry.
  
• Washtenaw County Historical Society. Curator Alice Cerniglia helped to develop the upcoming museum exhibit featuring the Centennial of the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry.
  
• Ann Arbor District Library
  
• The Michigan Theater
  
• The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
  
• University of Michigan Nursing History Group

For more information about the Department of Psychiatry’s Centennial Celebration please visit us at www.med.umich.edu/psych/centennial/index.htm

Contact: Laura Hirshbein, MD, PhD
Tel: (734) 936-4960
Email: lauradh@umich.edu