Mind, Brain, Body, and Behavior

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 17

22. Robert Felix, oral history interview by Eli Rubinstein, May 27-28, 1975,
    transcript, NIMH Oral History Collection, 1975-1978, OH 144, NLM;
    Robert Felix, oral history interview by George Rosen, February 8, 1963,
    transcript, Folder Felix, Box 1, MSC 203, NLM. Mary Lasker, a wealthy
    New York entrepreneur married to millionaire Albert Lasker, and Senator
    Claude Pepper, who “had sponsored bills that created five of the first six
    disease-oriented institutes,” were also influential in pushing for NIH
    legislation (Rowland, NINDS at 50, 6).


23. Jeanne L. Brand, “The National Mental Health Act of 1946: A Retrospect,”
    Bulletin of the History of Medicine 39, no. 3 (1965): 231-45; NIMH
    Organization-1950, Box 1.


24. Berkowitz and LaMountain, “Organizational Change at the NIH.”


25. 60 Stat. L. 421.


26. Felix, oral history by Rubinstein; Gerald N. Grob, From Asylum to Community:
    Mental Health Policy in Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
    Press, 1991).


27. Robert Felix, oral history interview by Milton J. E. Senn, March 8, 1979,
    transcript, Folder Felix, Box 2, OH 76, NLM.


28. Mental Health Challenges, 27. Robert Felix, oral history interview by Jeanne
    Brand, March 18, 1964, transcript, Folder Felix, Box 3, OH 149, NLM.


29. Felix, oral history by Rosen.


30. Brand, “National Mental Health Act.”


31. Mental Health Challenges.


32. Felix, oral history by Rubinstein.


33. Ibid., 50-51. Consultants to the National Mental Health Advisory Council
    included S. Allen Challman, Frank Fremont-Smith (Josiah Macy, Jr.,
    Foundation), Nolan D. C. Lewis, and William Malamud, as well as guests
    such as Daniel Blain (Veterans Administration), Joseph Bobbitt (PHS),
    Dale Cameron (PHS), Rolla E. Dyer, Sam Hamilton, Mary Lasker, Winfred
    Overholser, Mary Switzer, Dael Wolfle (American Psychological Associa­
    tion), and Ralph C. Williams.


34. In the late 1940s, the PHS consisted of three branches: the NIH, the Bureau
    of Medical Services, and the Bureau of State Services. The NIH was the
    research arm of the PHS.


35. NIH Report, 1950-1951; National Institute of Mental Health, Research in
    the Service of Mental Health: Report of the Research Task Force of the National
    Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health,
    Publication No. (ADM) 75-236, 1975).


36. Felix, oral history by Rosen.


37. Ibid.


38. Ibid.; Felix, oral history by Senn; Felix, oral history by Brand.


39. Felix, oral history by Senn; Felix, oral history by Rosen; Felix, oral history
    by Brand.


40. Felix, oral history by Rosen, 44-45.