Mental Health in the United States: A Fifty-Year History

Nina Ridenour

Published by Harvard University Press 1961

Mental Health in the United States

A Fifty-Year History

Nina Ridenour

Volume 97 in the series Commonwealth Fund Publications

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674420267

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
I. Backdrop: May 6, 1908 Forerunners and Beginnings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. “. . . But it is not Fiction" Clifford Beers and His Early Supporters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
III. "Tombs–But not for the Quiet Dead" Vignettes of Earlier Days Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
IV. Write the Vision Plain The National Committee for Mental Hygiene and Some of Its Activities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
V. The Cinderella Story Psychiatry Takes Its Proper Place Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
VI. "We Must Reach Them Earlier" Child, Guidance Clinics> Residential Treatment} and Child Psychiatry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
VII. Wanted: A Word The Care of the Mentally Retarded Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
VIII At the Back of the Fronts The Mentally III in Four Wars – And After Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
IX. The One-World Theme International Mental Health Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Χ. The People: Of and By Legal Protection of the Mentally III and Government's Expanding Role Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
XI. Outreach Psychiatric Concepts Pervade the Helping Professions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
XII. That He Who Runs May Read Public Education} Public Relations, and Fund-Raising Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
XIII A Nucleus but No Boundary The Organized Citizens' Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
XIV Where Are We Now? Some Reasons for Optimism–with Caution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1961
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 146
Keywords: Mental illness -- United States.; Mental health -- United States.; Mental Health -- history.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674420267

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1961
ISBN: 9780674420250