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The movement relegated people deemed ‘mentally deficient’ from therapeutic policies based on family relationships believed to promote mental health. However, a late 1950’s experiment known as the Brooklands Study subverted this discrimination. This was paradoxical since it built on mental hygienist theorising.
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
Apr 15, 2021 · Mental hygiene is a form of preventive maintenance that can be likened to other hygienic practices. Through the plasticity of the brain, mental training activities can foster healthy cognitive ...
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
working assumption of the mental hygiene movement-belief in the mal-leability of personality.'4 The hygienist reformulation of the role of personality in mental disorder had implications far beyond prevention of mental illness. New vistas opened up for the understanding of dependancy, delinquency, crime, and indeed many forms of deviant behavior.
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 ...
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Nov 8, 2019 · References to older traditions such as von Feuchtersleben’s ‘dietetics of the soul’ stressed German-speaking mental hygienists’ independence from the international movement, but also vis-à-vis social hygiene. 43 The emergence and success of a mental hygiene movement in the United States provided reform-oriented psychiatrists with a possibility to unite existing and new ideas for the ...
