{"title":"The Mentally Ill in America","authors":"S. C. Brown","doi":"10.1097/00000446-193712000-00046","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is characteristic of the American approach to social problems that it should be thought worth while for the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene to finance a survey of the treatment of the mentally ill. It is perhaps not so characteristic that the subject should be approached by a social historian from the standpoint of the gradual development of social attitudes and of the institutions through which these attitudes became shaped.","PeriodicalId":92104,"journal":{"name":"Mental welfare","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1937-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"46","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mental welfare","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00000446-193712000-00046","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It is characteristic of the American approach to social problems that it should be thought worth while for the American Foundation for Mental Hygiene to finance a survey of the treatment of the mentally ill. It is perhaps not so characteristic that the subject should be approached by a social historian from the standpoint of the gradual development of social attitudes and of the institutions through which these attitudes became shaped.