The Library is sponsoring a special presentation by Carol Tamminga, M.D., entitled A Psychiatrist Then & Now: Reflections on a Changing Profession. This presentation, which will be held on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, from 12 to 1 p.m. in McDermott Lecture Hall D1.602, focuses on the many changes that have affected clinical research and practice in psychiatry over the years.

For example, the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM, 1952) had 130 pages and included 106 mental disorders. The current edition (DSM-IV-TR, 2000), describes 287 conditions in more than 900 pages. A fifth edition is expected to be published next year. From its psychoanalytic premises, dominant in the immediate Post-war Era, to its emerging approaches in neurobiology and genetics, psychiatry has undergone a sea-change in the past half century, responding to profound changes in society (e.g., removal of homosexuality from the category of disorders) and to progress in neuroscience (e.g., neuroimaging).

Dr. Tamminga is Chair of Psychiatry and Chief of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia at UT Southwestern. She holds the Communities Foundation of Texas Chair in Brain Science along with the Lou and Ellen McGinley Distinguished Chair and the McKenzie Chair in Psychiatry.

Dr. Tamminga’s lecture will be hosted by Raul Caetano, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., Dean of the UT School of Public Health, Dallas Regional Campus, and Dean of the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions.

The program is free and open to all. Pre-registration is not required. A light lunch will be served; come early!  For more information, please contact John Fullinwider by phone at 214-648-3801 or by email at john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu.