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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

Child psychiatry.

Publication Details

Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, 1935 CE.

Leo Kanner, an Austrian émigré and medical graduate of the University of Berlin, founded the first academic department of child psychiatry under the direction of Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kanner was the first U. S. physician to be identified as a child psychiatrist, and his textbook, Child Psychiatry (1935), introduced both the specialty and the term to the English speaking academic community.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#8894
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/11072
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLchild-psychiatry

Geographic Context

Publication place: Springfield, IL

Mentioned in annotation: Berlin