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  1. Tearing Down the Walls in Mental Health Care – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...he-walls-in-mental-health-care
    ... health problems and reduce the stigma associated with mental illness through advocacy and education. For the history-minded, ... Mental Health Week was observed, back in 1949. Mental illness carried a much heavier stigma then, and those ...
  2. NLM Collection Tour: Mental Health – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...collections-tour-mental-health
    ... history of social and scientific efforts to understand mental illness and support people and communities in maintaining mental ... They preserve stories—of people who struggled with mental illness, of the impact on mental health of historical ...
  3. Diseases of the Mind 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/topics/diseases-of-mind/index.html
    ... its readers with the nature and varieties of mental illness and with methods of prevention and care for ... in New York State. Brigham had published on mental illness prior to AJI. His book, Remarks on the ...
  4. Psychiatric Interview Films in the Age of Reform – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...iew-films-in-the-age-of-reform
    ... 1960s psychiatric practice, in which people with addiction, mental illness, or mental disabilities seek help and are received ... 1960s psychiatric practice, in which people with addiction, mental illness, or mental disabilities seek help and are received ...
  5. Lawrence Kolb Papers 
    https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/kolb - 37K
    ... and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was one of the first to advocate ... and in public health research and treatment of mental illness. He was born in Galesville, Md., Feb. 20, ...
  6. Lawrence Kolb—Mental Health as Public Health – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...mental-health-as-public-health
    ... humane care, the PHS physicians, acknowledging connections between mental illness and crime, hoped to study and learn from ... reflected gradually changing public and professional perceptions of mental illness in America. United States Public Health Service Hospital, ...
  7. Diseases of the Mind 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/.../bio-john-p-gray.html?imgid=4
    ... his death. Gray was a strong believer that mental illness was due to physical causes that could be ... as opposed to the long-standing belief that mental illness was due to 'moral' causes. In 1870, Gray ...
  8. Mike Gorman Papers 
    https://findingaids.nlm.nih.gov/repositories/ammp/resources/gorman - 38K
    ... became executive director of the National Committee Against Mental Illness, a Washington publicity and lobbying group supported by ... Pressure in 1973. Like the National Committee Against Mental Illness, this group focused on lobbying Congress and educating ...
  9. Diseases of the Mind 
    https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/topics/diseases-of-mind/timeline.html
    ... sometimes ended up in almshouses or jails. Because mental illness was generally thought to be caused by a ... grew and certain areas became more densely settled, mental illness became one of a number of social issues ...
  10. Illuminating St. Elizabeths at the National Building Museum – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections 
    https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/...t-the-national-building-museum
    ... question of how to care for people with mental illness has plagued reformers and officials for several centuries— ... describing the Area D clinic at St. Elizabeths. “Mental illness is no longer shameful,” the booklet claimed optimistically. ...
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