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Abstract. The National Association for Mental Health adopted the ‘brand name’ MIND as part of its transformation into a campaigning pressure group at the turn of the 1970s. This article examines the historical antecedents to key statements made by the organisation at this time regarding the relationship of mental health with, what was then ...
Apr 15, 2021 · This article reintroduces and explores the conceptual framework of mental hygiene. The concept of mental hygiene was originally introduced in the early 20th century, with the aim of preventing and treating mental illness and milder mental disorders. The movement lost its momentum shortly thereafter and the concept went largely ignored since then.
- Guillaume Tremblay, Nicole C. Rodrigues, Sanjiv Gulati
- 2021
The mental hygiene movement has its roots in turn-of-the century Progressive reform movements. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene (NCMH), the organizational spearpoint of the mental hygiene movement, was orga-nized in 1909 by a small, carefully chosen group of reform-minded acade-micians, social workers, physicians, and psychiatrists.
Feb 23, 2010 · As one mental hygienist put it, ‘The social ills of the ‘backward’ child, the persistent thief, the sex offender, the acute depressive and the ‘unmanageable’ rebel are not different problems but in reality a single one, that of helping the sufferer to a better adjustment of life, in short, of restoring to him mental health’ (Central Association for Mental Welfare 1939).
- Jonathan Toms
- 2010
Apr 20, 2024 · The third dimension that characterised mental hygiene was the belief in science and its potential to guide decision-making on virtually any issue. 41 Mental hygienists were part of a broader movement in medicine that at the turn of the twentieth century sought to position science as the sole source of knowledge and expertise. Mental hygienists brandished the threat that society would be won ...
In 1970, at the beginning of its turn to promoting the rights of patients, NAMH had drawn attention to the plight of children in mental handicap hospitals and, for the first time, explicitly drawn attention to the fact that the principles of childcare promoted under the mental hygiene movement had not been applied in mental handicap hospitals. 83 MIND’s campaigning for people termed mentally ...
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The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary conditions, Dr. J. B. Gray, an eminent psychiatrist, envisioned a community-based mental hygiene that would operate through education, social culture ...
