Preventing Mental Illness: Past, Present and Future

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
 Introduction  (Matthew Smith, Vicky Long, Oonagh Walsh, Despo Kritsotaki)....Pages 1-38
 Imagination and the Prevention of Violence: Fredric Wertham, Mass Media and Mental Hygiene, 1946–1958  (Dennis Doyle)....Pages 39-60
 ‘They May Strike Back at Society in a Vengeful Manner’: Preventing the Psychological Scars of Acne in Post-war America  (Iain Ferguson)....Pages 61-85
 Preventing Mental Illness, Preventing Delinquency: Juvenile Justice and Child Psychiatry in Post-war America  (Erin J. Lux)....Pages 87-109
 Social and Mental Hygiene: Models of Mental Illness Prevention in Twentieth-Century Greece (1900–1980)  (Despo Kritsotaki)....Pages 111-130
 Socialism, Society, and the Struggle Against Mental Illness: Preventative Psychiatry in Post-war Yugoslavia  (Mat Savelli)....Pages 131-150
 The History of Suicide Prevention in Finland, 1860s–2010s  (Mikko Myllykangas)....Pages 151-170
 Risk Assessment in an Age of Neoliberalism: John Monahan’s The Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (1981)  (Matthew Gambino)....Pages 171-186
 American Psychiatry in Transition: Reform or Revolution?  (Lucas Richert, Matthew DeCloedt)....Pages 187-207
 Designing for Mental Health: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Architectural Study Project  (Edmund Ramsden)....Pages 209-235
 Newgenics and the Politics of Choice: A Historical Look at Canada’s Psychiatric Institutions in the 1970s  (Erika Dyck)....Pages 237-256
 Preventing Male Mental Illness in Post-war Britain  (Ali Haggett)....Pages 257-280
Back Matter ....Pages 281-292