The after care of the insane : a history of its development and a discussion of its nature and value as an agency in the prevention of mental disorders, together with a plan for its practical application in Connnecticut and other chosen fields / by Clifford W. Beers.

  • Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943.
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[1909], ©1909
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    A History of Its Development and a Discussion of Its Nature and Value as an Agency in the Prevention of Mental Disorders, Together with a Plan for Its Practical Application in Connecticut and Other Chosen Fields. By CLIFFORD W. BEERS Executive Secretary of The Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene. The history of the development of After Care for persons who have recovered from an attack of mental disorder, more especially those who have been discharged from asylums and hospitals as cured, or improved, is but another chapter in the story of mankind's neg- lect of the insane. Although in one country, France, the assisting of patients upon their discharge from general hospitals was attempted as early as 1650, nearly two centuries elapsed before a like effort was made in any country to help patients upon their discharge from asy- lums for the insane. To Dr. Lindpainter, director of an asylum at Eberbach, in the duchy of Nassau, belongs the honor of having inaug- urated this beneficent work. What he did in 1829 in Germany was not undertaken elsewhere until 1841, when, under the direction of Dr. Falret of Paris, an After-Care association was founded for work in the Department of the Seine. This Society and another founded three years later for work along the same lines combined forces in 1848 as a single organization which is still in existence. In 1871 After Care was introduced into England, and it was not long before the work was inaugurated in Austria, Switzerland and Italy. Strangely enough in Germany and in Austria such discharged patients as are now being helped are given assistance not because the nature of their affliction has made them peculiarly deserving of it, but