Three Private Family Agencies in Richmond and Their Methods and Resources in Handling Mental Health Problems
Abstract
Background of the Study. On June 23, 1900, Clifford. Whittingham Beers, obsessed with a fear of epilepsy, attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of the fourth-story minnow of his home. Fortunately the mentally ill man landed feet first on soft earth, a bare three inches from a stone pavement. On that three inches hinged not only the life and death of a man, but the birth of a world wise movement. After suffering cruel and harsh treatment for three years in three different type mental institutions, Beers emerged a well man with a crusading heart to ameliorate the conditions of the mentally ill. The fruition of his self-imposed mission was the autobiography, A mind That Found itself, published in 1908 and the founding of the National Committee for Mental hygiene in 1909.
Subject Area
Social work|Mental health|Social studies education
Recommended Citation
Wiest, Bernard John, "Three Private Family Agencies in Richmond and Their Methods and Resources in Handling Mental Health Problems" (1950). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30724920.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30724920
