Chapter XXII and following
Beers outlines his plan for a national society to reform asylum care, prevent mental illness, and educate the public—the founding manifesto of the mental hygiene movement.
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From A Mind That Found Itself by Clifford Beers
Beers advances a philosophical and practical program for humane treatment of the mentally ill, founding what became the mental hygiene movement.
Closing chapters
His correspondence with William James and Adolf Meyer, including James's famous endorsement that the book represented a turning point in the humane treatment of the insane.
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