The Psychiatric History of New York Walking Tour

Take a walk through the evolution of psychiatry in New York on this 2.5-hour tour of the Upper East Side.

Main Features

• Find out about the journey of psychiatry from Europe to America
• Learn about the madhouses of the metropolis
• Discover the psychoanalytic explosion that occurred in New York City
• Hear about the Sackler family’s beginnings in “valiumania”
• Peer at the psychiatric islands of the East River the first American psychoanalytic society and the offices mansions and townhouses of medical research and Freudian relations

Meeting point: East 87th Street and East End Avenue entrance to Carl Schurz Park.

Tour descriptions and tickets are available through the Purefinder New York website: https://www.purefindernewyork.com/

Host or Publisher Purefinder New York