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The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) is an American professional organization of psychiatrists dedicated to shaping psychiatric thinking, public programs and clinical practice in mental health. Its 29 committees meet semi-annually and choose their own topics for exploration. They explore issues and ideas on the frontiers of psychiatry and in applying psychiatric insights into general medical, social, and interpersonal problems. ==History of GAP== GAP was part of a larger move toward professionalization of the field.〔Richardson, Theresa R. (1989). ''The Century of the Child: The Mental Hygiene Movement and Social Policy in the United States and Canada.'' SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-0020-3〕 GAP was founded in May 1946 by a group of young psychiatrists who had served in World War II. They returned to the U.S. to find an inadequate system of civilian care and were impatient with the traditionalism of the American Psychiatric Association (which had originally been founded as an association of asylum superintendent).〔History of the American Psychiatric Association from the (APA website )〕 GAP was formed under the leadership of Dr. William C. Menninger〔(William Menninger ) in the Menninger Family Archives from Kansas State Historical Society.〕 and the "young turks" in American psychiatry who were eager to professionalize the field.〔Shorter, Edward (1997). ''A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac.'' John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0-471-24531-5〕 Menninger wrote:
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