Preventing Mental Illness Past, Present and Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kritsotaki, Despo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Long, Vicky (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Smith, Matthew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Social history.; Medicine-History.; History.; Psychiatry.; History, Modern.; Social History.; History of Medicine.; History of Science.; Modern History.

This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and...