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On January 15, 1855, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington, D. C., admitted its first patients. This year it celebrates its centennial. Now a component unit of the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, it was established by Act of Congress as the Government Hospital for the Insane. Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887), one of the most remarkable women America has produced, was responsible for this action by the Congress, and her name will be given this year to the new 420-bed Admission and Treatment Building at Saint Elizabeths, the Dorothea Lynde Dix Memorial Pavilion.
On May 5 and 6, 1955, there will be held at the Hospital a two-day meeting with invited guest speakers of international repute. An historical pageant depicting the life and works of Miss Dix -planned, written, and enacted by patients of the Hospital—will also be presented at this time.
During its hundred years of service, this Hospital has had but five superintendents, including the present Superintendent, Dr. Winfred Overholser. All five have been Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association. Throughout its existence, Saint Elizabeths has been respected both in this country and abroad as a public mental hospital of the highest repute. Never identified with any single school of psychiatric thought, it has been proud of its eclectic approach to the treatment of the mentally ill. It has trained thousands of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses and social workers, ministers, occupational therapists, and others engaged in the treatment of the mentally ill.
The Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, announces its 1955 summer workshops in the Rorschach Test, to be conducted by Dr. S. J. Beck the weeks of July 11-15 and July 18-22. The basic processes in test evaluation will occupy the first week's workshop, and it will demonstrate full test interpretation. The second week will be devoted to problems of advanc