Preventing mental illness: past, present and future

Providing an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, this book also 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 practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology.