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

Author/Contributor(s):	Smith, Matthew
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	01/17/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Social psychiatry was a mid-twentieth-century approach to mental health that stressed the prevention of mental illness rather than its treatment. Matthew Smith offers a history of the rise and fall of social psychiatry that also explores the lessons this largely forgotten movement has to offer today.