The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States

by Matthew Smith

Book Overview

Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Its proponents developed environmental explanations of mental health, arguing that socioeconomic problems such as poverty, inequality, and social isolation were the underlying causes of mental illness. The influence of social psychiatry contributed to the closure of psychiatric hospitals and the emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231203934
• ISBN13: 9780231203937
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"