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Norman Dain offers a compelling biography of Clifford W. Beers, whose lifelong battle against his own mental illness inspired him to become a champion for mental health. Beers' autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, created a public outcry in 1908, as it chronicled Beers' experiences during his three-year confinement in an asylum. Despite his disability, Beers went on to found the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (now the National Association for Mental Health), the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene, and the International Committee for Mental Hygiene.
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Information
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh PressYear
1980eBook ISBN
9780822976288Subtopic
Medicine BiographiesTable of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Early Years: Crisis and Collapse
- 2. Stamford Hall
- 3. The Hartford Retreat
- 4. Connecticut Hospital for the Insane
- 5. Back in Circulation
- 6. Writing the Autobiography
- 7. Publication of A Mind That Found Itself
- 8. A Reform Movement Launched
- 9. The Connecticut Society and Founding the National Committee
- 10. "The Ox and the 'Wild Ass'"
- 11. Phipps "To the Rescue"
- 12. The National Committee in Action: The Salmon Years, First Phase
- 13. "Canning Salmon and Bottling Beers"
- 14. Branching Out
- 15. The First International Congress on Mental Hygiene
- 16. Traveling and Family Troubles
- 17. Twenty-Five Years After: Fame and Honors
- 18. Personal Interests
- 19. The Mentally Ill Intrude
- 20. Final Years: Crisis and Collapse
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index