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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476919903321

Autore

Kritsotaki Despo

Titolo

Preventing Mental Illness : Past, Present and Future / / edited by Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long, Matthew Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2019

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319986999

3319986996

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages)

Collana

Mental Health in Historical Perspective, , 2634-6044

Disciplina

616.8905

Soggetti

Social history

Medicine - History

Science - History

Psychiatry

History, Modern

Social History

History of Medicine

History of Science

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction; Matthew Smith, Vicky Long, Oonagh Walsh, and Despo Kritsotaki -- 2. Imagination and the Prevention of Violence: Frederic Wertham, Mass Media, and Mental Hygiene, 1946-1958; Dennis Doyle -- 3. 'They may strike back at society in a vengeful manner': Preventing the Psychological Scars of Acne in Post-War America; Iain Ferguson -- 4. Preventing Mental Illness, Preventing Delinquency: Juvenile Justice and Child Psychiatry in Post-war America; Erin Lux -- 5. Social and mental hygiene: Models of mental illness prevention in twentieth-century Greece (1900-1980); Despo Kritsotaki. 6. Socialism, Society, and the Struggle against Mental Illness: Preventative Psychiatry in Post-war Yugoslavia; Mat Savelli -- 7. The History of Suicide Prevention in Finland, 1860s-2010s; Mikko Myllykangas -- 8. Risk Assessment in an



Age of Neoliberalism: John Monahan's The Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (1981); Matthew Gambino -- 9. American Psychiatry in Transition: Reform or Revolution?; Lucas Richert and Matthew DeCloedt -- 10. Designing for Mental Health: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Architectural Study Project; Edmund Ramsden -- 11. Newgenics and the Politics of Choice: A Historical Look at Canada's Psychiatric Institutions in the 1970s; Erika Dyck -- 12. Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-War Britain; Ali Haggett.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a gender perspective and considering professional developments as well as changing social and legal contexts, including deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion that it might well be possible to learn from such historical attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are worth considering in future and which are best confined to the past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come. Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.