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Beers, a mind that found itself cambridge university press. After his release, he returned to new york city but suffered a relapse and spent the last few months of 1904 back at the hartford retreat. He was one of five children, all of whom would suffer from psychological distress and would spend time in mental institutions, including beers himself see clifford w. Instead he would become a crusader for the muted patients shut away in public and private institutions with names like hospital for the insane. Quotes from a mind that found itself by clifford whittingham beers. In 1909 beers founded the national committee for mental hygiene. Friends and critics advised beers to keep quiet about his illness, but he refused to hide his story behind closed doors. As he was ignorant of the methods of treatment in vogue in hospitals for the insane, it was several weeks before he dared put in jeopardy his position by presuming to shield me against unwise orders of the doctors. Beers was more strenuous than that of the average patient, yet, as i have said, it may prove to have been for the good of many. At such times my pentup indignation poured itself forth in such a disconnected way that my protests were robbed of their right ring of truth. Beers was born in new haven, connecticut to ida and robert beers on march 30, 1876.
A mind that found itself by clifford whittingham beers full text. Beers was a graduate 1897 of yale university who suffered severe episodes of depression and anxiety and was maltreated and abused during his confinement at various private and. A mind that found itself by clifford whittingham beers free ebook. A mind that found itself is beers own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all. On the treatment of the insane in the united states. Apart from this historical significance, the work is also a primer on bipolar disorder while being a good, if not gripping, read. That question i have asked myself and this book is in part an answer. 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. Moreover, it grips the imagination of readers not because it is a document of social reform but because it is a superb narrative. A mind that found itself is clifford beers own story, as one of five children who all suffered psychological distress and were all confined to mental institutions at one time or another. Modern approaches account of what he endured, a mind that found itself, continues to be reprinted in many languages, inspiring successive generations of students, mentalhealth workers, and laymen to promote improved conditions of psychiatric care in local communities, in schools, and in hospitals. Beers had written an autobiography, a mind that found itself. Beers, whose lifelong battle against his own mental illness inspired him to become a champion for mental health. Mental illness was something that ran through his family blood line, starting with his mother and aunt who were never diagnosed but suffered from paranoia and anxiety.
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