Gerald Caplan
Gerald Caplan · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Founder of community psychiatry and crisis intervention theory
1917, Liverpool, United Kingdom — 2008, Jerusalem, Israel
United Kingdom · United States · Israel
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Gerald Caplan was a psychiatrist regarded as a founder of community psychiatry and preventive mental health, developing influential theories of crisis intervention and social support. He worked at Harvard and later in Israel, shaping mental-health services worldwide. Caplan was Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Liverpool, and spent his final decades in Jerusalem.
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Founder of community psychiatry and crisis intervention theory
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