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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.
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.
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
Mental hygienists were interested in children because they were convinced that mental illness and mental disorder were to an important extent related to early childhood experiences. Their interest in prevention made them focus their public-health education activities on reaching parents to inform them about the latest scientific insights in child development and child rearing.
In a similar vein, another hygienist, a psychiatrist, declares that when all medical schools and every college and university offers courses in mental hygiene, when every home and school has learned to apply mental hygiene, when every community has facilities for mental hygiene, and when all agencies are administered in conformity with the laws of mental hygiene “then we shall have reached ...
- Sol Cohen
- 1983
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 ...
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Mental hygienists succeeded in influencing the 1926 Royal Commission on Mental Disorder to the extent that the objectives which informed the Commission were accepted as public health, mental hygiene, national efficiency and social reconstruction. 41 The keynote of the future’, asserted the Commission, ‘should be prevention and treatment’. 42 Yet the voluntary patient status that was ...
