Preventing Mental Illness

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Imagination and the Prevention of Violence: Fredric Wertham, Mass Media and Mental Hygiene, 1946–1958

Chapter 3 ‘They May Strike Back at Society in a Vengeful Manner’: Preventing the Psychological Scars of Acne in Post-war America

Chapter 4 Preventing Mental Illness, Preventing Delinquency: Juvenile Justice and Child Psychiatry in Post-war America

Chapter 5 Social and Mental Hygiene: Models of Mental Illness Prevention in Twentieth-Century Greece (1900–1980)

Chapter 6 Socialism, Society, and the Struggle Against Mental Illness: Preventative Psychiatry in Post-war Yugoslavia

Chapter 7 The History of Suicide Prevention in Finland, 1860s–2010s

Chapter 8 Risk Assessment in an Age of Neoliberalism: John Monahan’s The Clinical Prediction of Violent Behavior (1981)

Chapter 9 American Psychiatry in Transition: Reform or Revolution?

Chapter 10 Designing for Mental Health: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Architectural Study Project

Chapter 11 Newgenics and the Politics of Choice: A Historical Look at Canada’s Psychiatric Institutions in the 1970s