The First Resort : : The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States /

The First Resort : : The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States / / Matthew Smith.

Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its proponents developed environmental explanations of mental health, arguing that socioeconomic problems such as poverty, inequality, and social isolatio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Smith, Matthew,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 10 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Magic Years
  • 1 The Origins of Social Psychiatry
  • 2 From Hobohemia to the Gold Coast
  • 3 Swamp Yankees and Proper New Haveners
  • 4 Madness in the Metropolis
  • 5 From Cove to Woodlot
  • 6 The Decline of Social Psychiatry
  • Epilogue: Social Psychiatry and Universal Basic Income
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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