# Owen Copp > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Owen_Copp > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Owen_Copp.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Copp > Source revision: 1345416141 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American physician (1858–1933)}} '''Owen Copp''', [M.D.](/source/M.D.) (1858–1933) was an American [physician](/source/physician) and a [psychiatric administrator](/source/psychiatric_administrator). He was president of the [American Psychiatric Association](/source/American_Psychiatric_Association) from 1921 to 1922, and proposed a progressive program in [mental health](/source/mental_health) in the United States. ==Biography== Copp was born in [Salem, New Hampshire](/source/Salem%2C_New_Hampshire), in 1858. He graduated from [Dartmouth College](/source/Dartmouth_College) in 1881, and then from [Harvard Medical School](/source/Harvard_Medical_School) in 1884. In 1885, he was appointed assistant physician at [Taunton State Hospital](/source/Taunton_State_Hospital) (formerly known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Taunton) in Massachusetts and later served as assistant superintendent for the hospital. In 1898, the Massachusetts Hospital for Epileptics was opened (later renamed the [Monson State Hospital](/source/Monson_State_Hospital)) in [Palmer, Massachusetts](/source/Palmer%2C_Massachusetts), and Copp was appointed to direct the construction and remodeling of the hospital. The following year he was appointed executive officer of the new [Massachusetts State Board of Insanity](/source/Massachusetts_State_Board_of_Insanity). In 1900, he proposed to the state legislators a program to take care of three kinds of patients: the acute and curable, the chronic, and those who would live in a colony-type setting. The [Gardner State Colony for the Insane](/source/Gardner_State_Colony_for_the_Insane) was opened in 1902 in [Gardner, Massachusetts](/source/Gardner%2C_Massachusetts), and it pioneered the use of cottage residences for mental ill patients. In 1908, Copp proposed the need for a [psychopathic hospital](/source/psychopathic_hospital) for scientific research, medical education, and outpatient services, and he advocated for the construction of a metropolitan-styled mental hospital for approximately 2,000 patients. In 1909, laboratory services in the state hospitals were increased and a state pathologist was appointed. In 1911, Copp left Massachusetts to become physician-in-chief and superintendent of the Department of Mental Diseases of the [Pennsylvania Hospital](/source/Pennsylvania_Hospital) in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia). He built and remodeled old buildings and hired new medical staff. From 1922 to 1929, he was relieved of his administrative responsibilities and became a full-time consultant on the building of a new institute. Copp was active in the revision of Pennsylvania [mental health law](/source/mental_health_law)s by advocating state involvement in [mental hygiene](/source/mental_hygiene) and [community mental health service](/source/community_mental_health_service)s. After his retirement in 1921, he remained a consultant for development at the Pennsylvania hospital. In his Presidential address to the American Psychiatric Association in 1921, Copp pointed out the needs for psychiatric and mental hygiene programs which would be appropriate into the twenty-first century. Many of his proposals have since been adopted by state legislatures. He died in [Seville](/source/Seville), Spain, in 1933. ==Works== *Copp, Owen. “Sulphonal as Hypnotic,” ''American Journal of Insanity'' (1889-1890): 499-503. *Copp, Owen. “Characteristics of the Scotch Lunacy System,” ''American Journal of Psychiatry'' 61 (1904): 55-69. *Copp, Owen. “Mental Disease and Mental Defect: Their Magnitude and Import,” ''Transactions of the College of Physicians'' (1916): 139-147. *Copp, Owen. “An Administrative Ideal in Public Welfare Work,” ''American Journal of Insanity'' (1919-1920): 1-14. *Copp, Owen. “The Duty of the State and the Physician to the Mental Patient,” ''The Pennsylvania Medical Journal'' (1919-1920): 152-155. *Copp, Owen. “Presidential Address: Some Problems Confronting the Association,” ''American Journal of Psychiatry'' 78 (1921): 1-13. *Copp, Owen. “The Private Corporate Endowed Mental Hospital: Its Past and Future,” ''Proceedings of the Connecticut State Medical Society'' (1924): 99-109. ==References== *Bond, Earl D. “In Memoriam: Dr. Owen Copp,” ''American Journal of Psychiatry'' 90 (1933): 225-226 {{American Psychiatric Association Presidents}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Copp, Owen}} Category:1858 births Category:1933 deaths Category:American psychiatrists Category:Medical doctors from New Hampshire Category:People from Salem, New Hampshire Category:Dartmouth College alumni Category:Harvard Medical School alumni Category:American Psychiatric Association Category:Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Owen Copp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Copp) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Copp?action=history)). 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