The Journal of nervous and mental diseaseCall Number: RC321 .J83
Published/Created: Jan. 2006
Davidson, Jonathan R.T., Connor Kathryn M. and Swartz, Marvin. Mental illness in U.S. presidents between 1776 and 1974: a review of biographical sources. v. 194, Jan. 2006: 47-51.
Using secondary sources, including biographies, narrative accounts and journals, along with current standardized psychiatric diagnostic criteria, the authors explore the mental health of presidents from George Washington to Richard Nixon. They find that, at some point in their lives, almost one-half of U. S. presidents manifested signs suggestive of mental illness. Detailed data on individual presidents and possible causes of their illnesses are presented.