Preventing Mental Illness : Past, Present and Future /

This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Kritsotaki, Despo (Editor), Long, Vicky (Editor), Smith, Matthew (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	Mental Health in Historical Perspective,
Subjects:	Social history. Medicine-History. History. Psychiatry. History, Modern. Social History. History of Medicine. History of Science. Modern History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction; Matthew Smith, Vicky Long, Oonagh Walsh, and Despo Kritsotaki
2. Imagination and the Prevention of Violence: Frederic Wertham, Mass Media, and Mental Hygiene, 1946-1958; Dennis Doyle
3. 'They may strike back at society in a vengeful manner': Preventing the Psychological Scars of Acne in Post-War America; Iain Ferguson
4. Preventing Mental Illness, Preventing Delinquency: Juvenile Justice and Child Psychiatry in Post-war America; Erin Lux
5. Social and mental hygiene: Models of mental illness prevention in twentieth-century Greece (1900-1980); Despo Kritsotaki. 6. Socialism, Society, and the Struggle against Mental Illness: Preventative Psychiatry in Post-war Yugoslavia; Mat Savelli
7. The History of Suicide Prevention in Finland, 1860s-2010s; Mikko Myllykangas
8. Risk Assessment in an Age of Neoliberalism: John Monahan's The Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (1981); Matthew Gambino
9. American Psychiatry in Transition: Reform or Revolution?; Lucas Richert and Matthew DeCloedt
10. Designing for Mental Health: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Architectural Study Project; Edmund Ramsden
11. Newgenics and the Politics of Choice: A Historical Look at Canada's Psychiatric Institutions in the 1970s; Erika Dyck
12. Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-War Britain; Ali Haggett.