It began with a generous gift, a magnificent building, and a leader with an innovative mission. It became a home for pioneers and launched generations of clinicians, teachers, and researchers.Today it remains on the cutting edge of scientific investigation into the causes of psychiatric illnesses and the search for better treatments.
The building of the Phipps Clinic in 1913 represented a shift in American psychiatry from isolated asylums to providing humane care in a medical clinic attached to a teaching hospital. The beautiful building’s presence next to The Johns Hopkins Hospital made psychiatry visible and a full partner in the medical discovery of the era. In 2013, the joys and challenges of the next 100 years will mean the further push of scientific and social boundaries to fully understand these common and debilitating illnesses.
OUR HISTORY
![]() | Origin of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic A brief historical overview of how it all began |
![]() | A Century of Leaders |
![]() | Celebrating Psychiatry's Stars Meet some of Johns Hopkins' most influential faculty of the last century |
![]() | The Phipps Perspective: From Meyer to McHugh What makes Hopkins psychiatry special - a century in the making |
![]() | Psychiatry Nursing - The Early Years Treatments have changes but not the philosophy |
![]() | Psychiatry Social Work Social work and psychiatry began together at Hopkins |
![]() | Psychiatry Occupational Therapy - COMING SOON |
SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES
A Stellar Century: Johns Hopkins' Impact on American Psychiatry
![]() | THIRD IN THE SERIES - THE LEO KANNER LECTURE |
![]() | SECOND IN THE SERIES George F. Koob, Ph.D. on The Dark Side of Drug Addiction: The Horsley Gantt to Joseph Brady Connection March 27, 2013 | 5-6 PM > Learn more |
![]() | FIRST IN THE SERIES |
BOOKS
![]() | FACULTY BOOKS Discover some of our latest and rediscover the classics |
MAKE A CENTENNIAL GIFT
![]() | THE HENRY PHIPPS PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC: The Next 100 Years Philanthropy has moved from bricks and mortar to investments in scientists, teachers, and clinicians |




















