Mildred Mitchell-Bateman, MD: an icon in psychiatry

New Haven, West Virginia, is a small town nestled in Appalachia and located approximately eight miles from the juncture of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. Newspaper articles from the 1950s and ’60s suggest that the town’s demographic makeup and surrounding area as nearly 97 percent Caucasian. In 1926, as commissioned by West Virginia, a psychiatric

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