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Mind that found itself

In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental institutions at one time or another. Beers, who wrote the book after his own confinement, gained the support of the medical profession and was a leader in the mental hygiene movement. A Mind that Found Itself has been an inspiration to many mental health professionals in their choice of a profession. It also did much to help the rest of the world see mental health issues as a serious disease. A Mind that Found Itself is an excellent read for anyone seeking to better understand, or treat, mental illness.

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  • "APA ebooks"@en
  • "Mental hygiene movement"
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  • "A mind that found itself"
  • "Mind that found itself"

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  • "Psychische Hygiene /Geschichte."
  • "In the groundbreaking book, Clifford Beers tells what it was like to be institutionalized at a time when mental illness received little attention or respect. A Mind that Found Itself is Clifford Beers's own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental institutions at one time or another. Beers, who wrote the book after his own confinement, gained the support of the medical profession and was a leader in the mental hygiene movement. A Mind that Found Itself has been an inspiration to many mental health professionals in their choice of a profession. It also did much to help the rest of the world see mental health issues as a serious disease. A Mind that Found Itself is an excellent read for anyone seeking to better understand, or treat, mental illness."@en
  • "On the treatment of the insane in the United States."
  • "When he was twenty-four years old, Clifford Whittingham Beers was interred in a mental asylum. He remained there for three years, battling his mental illness. In his autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, he recounts the civil war that took place in his mind. The publication of this book in 1908 caused huge public outcry and began an inquiry into the state of mental health care. It contributed significantly to the beginnings of the modern mental health movement."@en
  • "Geisteskrankheit / USA."
  • "An autobiographical account of the author's confinement in a mental institution."
  • "At once a classic account of the ravages of mental illness and a major American autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself tells the story of a young man who is gradually enveloped by a psychosis. His well-meaning family commits him to a series of mental hospitals, but he is brutalized by the treatment, and his moments of fleeting sanity become fewer and fewer. His ultimate recovery is a triumph of the human spirit. The publication of A Mind That Found Itself did for the American mental health movement what Thomas Paineís Common Sense did for the American Revolution. Moreover, it grips the ima."@en
  • "In this autobiography, Clifford Whittingham Beers describes his battle with "insanity" (psychosis) between the ages of 24 and 26 and his repeated committals to a series of mental hospitals, where brutal and inhumane treatment caused more emotional trauma. Beers argues, "the biographical part of my autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which I fought single-handed on a battle-field that lay within the compass of my skull. An Army of Unreason, composed of the cunning and treacherous thoughts of an unfair foe, attacked my bewildered consciousness with cruel persistency, and would have destroyed me, had not a triumphant Reason finally interposed a superior strategy that saved me from my unnatural self." He also notes that his purpose in telling his story is to address the "needless abuse of helpless thousands" in mental hospitals. This autobiography provides a first-hand account of the abuse of mentally disordered patients in hospitals and strong recommendations for reform. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)"
  • "Beers, Clifford Whittingham."
  • "Psychiatrische Klinik / USA / Geschichte."
  • "Beers, Clifford Whittingham / Selbstheilung."
  • "In this autobiography, Clifford Whittingham Beers describes his battle with "insanity" (psychosis) between the ages of 24 and 26 and his repeated committals to a series of mental hospitals, where brutal and inhumane treatment caused more emotional trauma. Beers argues, "the biographical part of my autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which I fought single-handed on a battle-field that lay within the compass of my skull. An Army of Unreason, composed of the cunning and treacherous thoughts of an unfair foe, attacked my bewildered consciousness with cruel persistency, and would have destroyed me, had not a triumphant Reason finally interposed a superior strategy that saved me from my unnatural self." He also notes that his purpose in telling his story is to address the "needless abuse of helpless thousands" in mental hospitals. This autobiography provides a first-hand account of the abuse of mentally disordered patients in hospitals and strong recommendations for reform. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)."@en
  • "In this autobiography, Clifford Whittingham Beers describes his battle with "insanity" (psychosis) between the ages of 24 and 26 and his repeated committals to a series of mental hospitals, where brutal and inhumane treatment caused more emotional trauma. Beers argues, "the biographical part of my autobiography might be called the history of a mental civil war, which I fought single-handed on a battle-field that lay within the compass of my skull. An Army of Unreason, composed of the cunning and treacherous thoughts of an unfair foe, attacked my bewildered consciousness with cruel persistency, and would have destroyed me, had not a triumphant Reason finally interposed a superior strategy that saved me from my unnatural self." He also notes that his purpose in telling his story is to address the "needless abuse of helpless thousands" in mental hospitals. This autobiography provides a first-hand account of the abuse of mentally disordered patients in hospitals and strong recommendations for reform. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)."
  • "An autobiographical account of his confinement in a mental institution of the time, by Clifford Whittingham Beers."@en
  • "Clifford Whittingham Beers was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. In 1900 he was first confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He would later be confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During these periods he experienced and witnessed serious maltreatment at the hands of the staff. Beers gained the support of the medical profession and others in the work to reform the treatment of the mentally ill. In 1909 Beers founded the "National Committee for Mental Hygiene", now named Mental Health America, in order to continue the reform for the treatment of the mentally ill. He also started the Clifford Beers Clinic in New Haven in 1913, the first outpatient mental health clinic in the United States"

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  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"
  • "Biography"
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  • "Autobiography"
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Beers, Clifford W"
  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Erlebnisbericht"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"
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  • "A Mind that found itself"
  • "Mind that found itself"
  • "Mind that found itself"@en
  • "Eine Seele die sich wiederfand; Autobiographie des Begründers der Geistigen Hygiene"
  • "A mind that found itself : an autobiography"
  • "A mind that found itself : an autobiography"@en
  • "一颗找回自我的心 = A mind that found itself"
  • "A mind that found itself : An autobiography : (Issued with additions)"
  • "Yi ke zhao hui zi wo de xin"
  • "A Mind That Found Itself"@en
  • "A mind that found itself; an autobiography"@en
  • "A mind that found itself; an autobiography"
  • "A Mind that found itself : an autobiography"@en
  • "A mind that found itself"
  • "A mind that found itself"@en
  • "Eine Seele, die sich wiederfand Autobiographie d. Begründers d. "Geist. Hygiene""
  • "A mind that found itself : An autobiography"
  • "Eine Seele die sich wiederfand : Autobiographie"
  • "[A Mind that Found itself. An autobiography.]"@en
  • "[A Mind that Found itself. An autobiography.]"
  • "Eine Seele die sich wiederfand Autobiographie des Begründers der Geistigen Hygiene"
  • "A mind that found itself, an autobiography"@en
  • "一颗找回自我的心"
  • "A Mind That Found Itself an Autobiography"@en
  • "A mind that found itself : [excerpts]"
  • "A mind that found itself. : An autobiography. [Portr.]"
  • "Yi ke zhao hui zi wo de xin = A mind that found itself"
  • "Mind That Found Itself"
  • "A mind that found itself : An autobiography"
  • "A mind that found itself an autobiography"
  • "A mind that found itself an autobiography"@en
  • "Eine Seele, die sich wiederfand"
  • "A Mind that Found Itself : an autobiography"@en
  • "Mind that found itself, an autobiography"@en
  • "A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography"@en
  • "A mind that found itself : An Autobiography"
  • "Mind That Found Itself, A Autobiography"@en
  • "Z̲ahanī kih khūd rā bāzyaft : zīst nigār-yi shakhṣī"
  • "Eine Seele, die sich wiederfand : Autobiographie des Begründers der "Geistigen Hygiene""
  • "A Mind that Found itself. An autobiography"@en
  • "Eine Seele die sich wiederfand : Autobiographie des Begründers der "Geistigen Hygiene""

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