Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specialist, but the organizer of specialists and prime U. S. exemplar of mental healing is Clifford Whittingham Beers, 54. As everyone who knows his Mind That Found Itself* realizes, the mental hygiene movement is peculiarly...
...three years at the beginning of the century, Clifford Whittingham Beers was in hospitals and sanitoriums with a mental breakdown. It was caused by his foolish fear of being an epileptic, his overwork as a Yale undergraduate and later as an insurance clerk. Although wracked by wild illusions, his mind lucidly registered on his experiences. When he became well he had the impulse to document himself, to start a movement for the amelioration of the then unintelligently managed insane asylums. WTilliam James encouraged him. Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer invented for him the phrase "mental hygiene." Great names joined his movement...
College Students. Yale, Clifford Whittingham Beers's college and one of the pioneers among U. S. universities in applying mental hygiene methods to muddled students, has Dr. Arthur Hiler Ruggles as consultant in mental hygiene. Dr. Ruggles, pursuing investigations approved by Yale's President James Rowland Angell, reported that college men and women who need mental treatment need it chiefly because: 1) the competitive side of the educational program puts a strain on the student; 2) adjustment is necessary when the student changes from a small school where he was the leader to a large university where he becomes lost...
Contagion. "Mental disorders are contagious. Those who live in congested districts, who lead busy lives in great commercial centres are in grave danger. If 500 normal persons were to be exposed in crowded quarters to five victims of mental diseases, the effects of those five abnormal persons would be felt by every one of the normal 500."?Professor Henri Laugier of the Sorbonne...
Miserable Smart Children. How to deal with superior-minded school children is a mighty problem for mental hygienists. Dr. Leta Sletter Hollingworth of Columbia defined the smart child's plight. If he is kept in a grade with ordinary children his own age, he does his school work so swiftly that he must idle and daydream, bad habits both. If he is advanced to the grade of his intellectual equals, he is the baby of his class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting...