RT Journal
A1 Barchas JD, Marzuk PM
T1 Editors' note: Psychiatric practice in the new millennium
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1999
FD December 1
VO 56
IS 12
SP 1151
OP 1151
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.56.12.1151
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.12.1151
AB 
In the last century our profession has witnessed extraordinary changes in the way psychiatry is practiced. As the next century—indeed, the new millennium—begins, we asked several leaders in psychiatry for their prediction of what psychiatric practice will look like 100 years from now on December 31, 2099. In our charge to the authors we told them we had no particular stake in their views and suggested they could be "optimistic or Orwellian." We also asked them whether psychiatry would even exist. Both to ensure that their pieces reflect their own views and to diminish censored thought and inhibited writing, we told our panel that their article would not be peer-reviewed. Here are our authors' perspectives on psychiatric practice in the new millennium.