Paul Lemkau, a long time psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, was a strong advocate for community walk-in mental health clinics and of treating mental disorders within specific social contexts.
Dr. Paul Viktor Lemkau (July 1, 1909—April 26, 1992) was born in Springfield, Ill. and grew up there and in Ohio. He obtained his M.A. from Johns Hopkins in 193, where he taught until his retirement in 1978. While there he became founding chairman of the mental hygiene department, and from 1955 to 1957 he was also the first director of New York City's Community Mental Health Board. A consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization, Dr. Lemkau worked on public health projects in many countries and is the author of the seminal Mental Hygiene in Public Health (1949).
Paul Victor Lemkau appears in the following:
Freud Centenary Afternoon Session
Friday, April 20, 1956
