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McLean Hospital is ranked 1st among all psychiatric hospitals in the country according to U.S. News & World Report. [ 12 ] In 2017, McLean ranked among the top 20 independent hospitals worldwide receiving National Institutes of Health grant support.
John Gunder Gunderson [1] (June 20, 1942 – January 11, 2019) was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and a director at the Borderline center at McLean Hospital. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He has been referred to as the father of borderline personality disorder.
By 1821, 146 patients had been admitted. The growing need for more patient space led the Trustees to build additions and new houses. The opening of the Worcester State Hospital in 1833 directed indigent patients there, thus allowing McLean to admit more affluent patients which improved its finances.
In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after attempting suicide by overdosing on pills. She denies that it was a suicide attempt to a psychiatrist, who suggests she take time to regroup in McLean, a private mental hospital.
Edward Cowles (1836/1837 – July 25, 1919), an American psychiatrist, was the medical superintendent of the McLean Hospital in Massachusetts from 1879 to 1903. He was among the first hospital superintendents to advocate for hospital functions that encompassed patient treatment, research, and teaching.
The Cole Resource Center at McLean Hospital is named in his honor and he was the founder of the Manic-Depressive & Depressive Association (MDDA)-Boston. [1] [2] Cole, the first director of the psychopharmacology research branch at the National Institute of Mental Health, died May 26, 2009, due to renal disease complications in Boston. [1]
Mary C. Zanarini (born July 25, 1946) is an American psychologist and academic. She is a professor of psychology at the Department of Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School and the creator of the McLean Study of Adult Development (MSAD) at the McLean Hospital.
Scott Laurence Rauch (born September 22, 1960) is the President, Psychiatrist in Chief, and Rose Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Chair of Psychiatry of McLean Hospital, [1] who is known for his work using brain imaging methods to study psychiatric dysfunction.