Incorporation of GAP

GAP was incorporated in 1960, and its certificate of incorporation states its objects and purposes as: "the charitable, educational, and scientific objects and purposes to encouraging medical development, including the alleviation and cure of mental illness; employing consultants, collecting, studying and appraising significant data in the fields of psychiatry, mental health and human relations; reevaluating old concepts in said fields and developing and testing new ones, and publishing or distributing, on a non-profit basis, the results of such efforts; applying the knowledge obtained from such efforts for the promotion of mental health and good human relations; and creating or granting scholarships, fellowships, professorships, residencies, prizes and other encouragement to students and others interested in the promotion of mental health and good human relations."