The Psychiatric History of New York Walking Tour

Take an analytical stroll through the evolution of psychiatry on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

Tour Highlights

• 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

Event Venue

Carl Schurz Park, East End Avenue, New York, NY, USA, United States