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I will be editing the article about Karl Bowman. For now I will be doing all my editing here in my sandbox then later moving it onto the actual Wikipedia site!

The article on Karl Bowman, when I have done some editing, will contain new information about some of the points that are currently in the "Notes" section. I will make new sections containing information on the different types of work he has done, going more in depth about the subject and his works and findings.

-Adolescent Sex Studies

-Schizophrenia - Drug Abuse - Marijuana - Alcohol

-Homosexuality - Personal Level - How the Society (esp. Government) responds

=Family and Education/ Psychiatric Work UPDATES=

Army Medical Corps 1917-1919

Head of Laguna Honda Psychiatric Hospital (1941-1967)

Head of Department of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital in New York (1937-1941)

=Drug Abuse=

Alcoholism
Bowman was Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital in New York City when Dr. Allen Gregg (Director of the Rockefeller Foundation) asked him to participate in an alcoholism study he had been preparing. Bowman was interested in this project but he had the desire to have a part in leading the study. In 1938, Bowman joined the Moore Group. This group founded the "Research Council on Problems of Alcohol" or the RCPA ,which was an organization similar to Alcoholics Anonymous and soon after it was created, Bowman became a leader of this organization.

=Psychological Disorders=

Schizophrenia
Karl Bowman read his article The Modern Treatment of Schizophrenia in New York at the New York Academy of Medicine on February 17, 1939. During his reading, Bowman stated "over one half of the population of State Hospitals" consisted of patients diagnosed with Schizophrenia. He claimed that this psychological disorder did not shorten the lifespan of the patient, but only resulted in the deterioration of the patients brain. In his article, Bowman addresses many different methods that were used throughout history to help treat schizophrenia. The treatments mentioned include the Fever therapy. This was executed by inducing a fever within the patients using various methods, such as the malaria virus. Bowman claimed that this method did not produce effective results in the treatment of schizophrenia. Sleep therapy was the next method addressed in the reading. This method was carried out with the help of sleep inducing substances such as marijuana, opium and somnifen. Bowman also addresses stimulus therapy-this method was deemed temporary with effects that did not last. The method of treatment that Bowman claims as effective is Insulin Method of treatment. This treatment had longer lasting effects and patients showed greater signs of long term improvement. Bowman's statements are optimistic about schizophrenia patients whose conditions had improved or been cured and also about the future treatment methods for schizophrenia patients in the future.

=Sex Studies=