Musto D F
Am J Psychiatry. 1978 Jul;135 Suppl:22-6.
Historical consciousness is a valuable tool in psychiatry. History can be useful to psychiatrists by expanding their awareness and revealing general errors in the content of psychiatric knowledge, detecting drastic distortions that appear in the ways knowledge is applied to patients, helping to avoid mistakes in public policies that involve psychiatry and result from erroneous impressions of social history, and alerting us to possible future trends. Although history does not give answers--rather , a complex context within which to seek them--it still has value for the psychiatrist.
历史意识在精神病学中是一种宝贵的工具。历史对精神科医生可能有用，它能拓宽他们的认知，揭示精神病学知识内容中的常见错误，发现知识应用于患者时出现的严重偏差，有助于避免因对社会历史的错误认知而导致的涉及精神病学的公共政策失误，并提醒我们注意未来可能的趋势。虽然历史并不能给出答案——确切地说，它提供了一个寻求答案的复杂背景——但它对精神科医生仍具有价值。
