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 Central 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 homes of distinguished and disgraced doctors 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