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The Future of Psychiatry: Predictions Past and Present

The Second Aubrey Lewis Lecture, delivered at the Institute of Psychiatry, 26 November, 1971

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ørnulv Ødegård
Ørnulv Ødegård*
Affiliation:
Gaustad Sykehus, Gaustad, Oslo 3, Norway
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Human consciousness includes the dimension of time: As history it reaches back into the past, and as prediction it gropes towards the future. Knowledge of the future must have been felt as a necessity as long as the human mind has existed, and the need for such knowledge was being met on a high level of organization even before culture reached a written stage. Prophets came before authors. At one time prophecy was more important than history because it was nourished by the ancient and powerful mental force of anxiety, anxiety in its true psychiatric form as fear of the unknown.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 565 , December 1972 , pp. 579 - 589
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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