Current Initiatives & Archives

The intellectual community of the Center for Social Medicine has yielded invaluable archives, evaluations, and collections. 

Assisted Outpatient Treatment

Center researchers are conducting an evaluation of a new LA County Department of Mental Health program.

Center for the Study of the History of Neuropsychopharmacology

What has been done is not yet enough. Here are the stories of what is possible, what has been achieved, and how and why the vision still remains unfulfilled.

History of Public Mental Health Care in California

What has been done is not yet enough. Here are the stories of what is possible, what has been achieved, and how and why the vision still remains unfulfilled.

History of SfN

Joel Braslow, Marcia Meldrum, and Rena Selya collaborated with the Society for Neuroscience to write a multimedia history of the Society for Neuroscience.

Leo Rangell Professorial Endowment Archives

Made possible by a generous gift from Stewart and Lynda Resnick to the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Oral History of Human Genetics Project

An interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the history of the field of human genetics

Where's the Evidence?

In the summer of 2003, six activists took on the psychiatric establishment in a month of protest activities in Pasadena, California.