BRICKMAN, Harry, R., M.D., Ph.D. Harry Brickman Interview. Interviewed by Frances Lomas Feldman. Date of interview: 7-9-99. 1 cassette tape. Length of interview: 1.25 hours (approximately). Transcript of interview: 24 pp.

Interview topics: Studies in psychiatry at NYU and Menninger Clinic; psychiatric training at facilities in San Francisco and Palo Alto; practice in Riverside; navy service in Korean War; work as prison psychiatrist at Navy jail; private practice after war; chief of Outpatient Department at the NPI at UCLA; move to Director of Mental Health at LA County and philosophy of community mental health services; development of community mental health services; work of Alex Rogawski and Irv Berkowitz; failings of Short-Doyle Act to fund community health services; continued work at Harbor General (LA County); problems of voluntary commitment; politics of job with LA County and subsequent resignation; work with UCLA, the Psycho-Analytic Institute, and Department of Psychiatry at USC; leadership of Jack Lomas on Mental Health Board; problems at USC Department of Psychiatry with personnel; development of mental health services in ethnic communities; changes in attitudes towards mental health programs; opposition of John Birch Society to community mental health programs; work as Dean of Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute; family.

Additional Materials:

1. Correspondence re interview. 2. 1 diskette of transcription. 3. Article by Dr. Harry Brickman.