Clifford Beers
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A great reformer has passed on. Clifford Whittingham Beers died on July 9th, 1943, at Providence, U.S.A., but his fine enthusiastic and farseeing spirit has left behind it work which persists and grows. At a time when such ideas as his were regarded as almost too progressive, and, in some quarters indeed, as subversive and revolutionary, he, a recovered patient, demonstrated the value of individual study of each patient, and a more hopeful attitude towards the whole question of insanity and its treatment. He gained support from some of the best men in America, both doctors and others, amongst whom Professor William James, the psychologist and writer, stands out.
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