Strange Journey : : John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health / / Paul Roberts Bentley.

This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:North American Jewish Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • 1. There Was a Mother in Israel
  • 2. Home Child
  • 3. From Civilian to Fighting Man
  • 4. Pop Sociology
  • 5. Mental Health for Canada
  • 6. The Transmission of Anti-Semitism
  • 7. The Cold White Light of Detachment
  • 8. Free Discussion
  • 9. Anti-Semitic Segregation
  • 10. Film Noir
  • 11. Unorthodox Psycho-Analysis
  • 12. Nazi Terror
  • 13. Nervous Breakdown
  • 14. The Unpublished Version of Crestwood Heights
  • 15. Waspish Tone
  • 16. Jewish Tempers in the Village
  • 17. The Flash
  • 18. Uprising at York University
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index