Evolving society and mental health

Mental Health in Modern Society

more profitably to an amplification of the authors' views on Part II (Continuing Problems) and Part III (Sources of Help in Treatment and Prevention). The latter in particular compels the interest of the reader by its imaginative suggestions as to the integration of various aspects of mental health; the practising physician, the social worker, the psychologist, the minister of religion, and the...

Criminality and mental health: implications for society.

Morale and Mental Health in Modern Society

I feel that the title chosen by your Council for this Annual Address is one which is particularly important to us all at the moment, and Particularly appropriate for this Association to discuss. We had hoped to have Sir George Schuster to speak ; but most unfortunately he "ad to refuse, and as I had gone a little way to Put before my fellow members of the Council the importance of the subject, ...

Mental Health and Canadian Society ; Historical Perspectives

Canada is by no means inundated by scholarship surrounding the history of people with mental health problems or intellectual disabilities. Despite the existence of some fi ne essays and treatises on narrower topics, as the Editors of this excellent collection opine, “there have been very few attempts at national synthesis.”1 Worse still, from the perspective of the potential of research to fost...

High society: drugs, mental health, and the history of psychiatry.

P sychiatrists and historians used to exist in a state of mutual mistrust and suspicion. Professional historians of a generation ago, much influenced by the radical epistemology of Michel Foucault (1), the sociological critiques of Erving Goffman (2), the countercultural theorizing of RD Laing (3), or the trenchant libertarianism of Thomas Szasz (4), came to portray the entire enterprise of mod...