Harvey John Tompkins
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Harvey John Tompkins, M.D. (1906–1983) was an American physician, a psychiatrist, whose professional life was in public service.
Tompkins was born in Chicago into a working-class family. His early education was at
U.S. Army as a first lieutenant and assigned to the Civilian Conservation Corps
. He served in the Army for 31 years, retiring as a colonel.
In 1935, Tompkins entered his psychiatric residency at the
Veterans Administration
(VA) Mental Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. Through the VA, he traveled to numerous VA mental hospitals: Danville, Illinois, St. Cloud, Minnesota, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Mendota, Wisconsin.
In 1945, as
St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in New York. St. Vincent's was a long-established 600 bed general hospital and there were plans to expand the hospital to 1,000 beds and to include psychiatric services. Tompkins served as a consultant during the planning and construction and upon completion; he headed the new psychiatric service until 1973 when he retired. Under Tompkins's tenure, the psychiatric service grew from eight attending physicians and psychiatric residents to 50 attendings and 28 residents. Training programs were introduced in the areas of psychology, social work, and occupational therapy. St. Vincent's was under the authority of the Catholic Diocese
and Tompkins became the coordinator of all psychiatric Catholic sponsored health facilities in the New York area.
Tompkins was a member of numerous medical and psychiatric organizations: the
Royal Medico-Psychological Association
.
He was a professor of clinical psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School and at the New York University School of Medicine. In 1965, he delivered the Maudsley Bequest Lecture at a joint meeting of the American Psychiatric Association and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Harvey died in New York in 1983.
Works
- Tompkins, Harvey J., and Alfred W. Snedeker. "Care and Treatment of the Psychiatric Patient in the Veterans Administration", American Journal of Psychiatry 103 (January 1947): 467–469.
- Barton, Walter E., Harvey J. Tompkins, and Aaron B. Nadel. "The Need for Uniform Discharge Statistics in Public Psychiatric Hospitals", American Journal of Psychiatry 106 (December 1949): 429–440.
- Tompkins, Harvey J. "State and Veterans Administration Cooperation towards Better Mental Health", American Journal of Psychiatry 111 (September 1954): 172–176.
- Tompkins, Harvey J. "Health Insurance and Psychiatric Therapy", American Journal of Psychiatry 120 (October 1963): 345–349.
- Tompkins, Harvey J. "Psychiatric Treatment in General Hospitals and Private Practice", American Journal of Psychiatry 122 (March 1966): 1011–1014.
- Tompkins, Harvey J. "The Presidential Address: The Physician in Contemporary Society", American Journal of Psychiatry 124 (July 1967): 1–6.
References
- American Psychiatric Association. Biographical Directory of the Fellows & Members of the American Psychiatric Association. New York: Bowker, 1977.
- Gerty, Francis J. "Harvey John Tompkins, M.D, Ninety-Fifth President, 1966–1967", American Journal of Psychiatry 124 (July 1967): 9–15.
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