The after care of the insane : a history of its development and a discussion of its nature and value as an agency in the prevention of mental disorders, together with a plan for its practical application in Connnecticut and other chosen fields / by Clifford W. Beers.

  • Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943.
Date:
[1909], ©1909
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    rather because they, like any other needy persons, are entitled to as- sistance by the regularly established charitable organizations. On the authority of Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen, Lecturer on Abnormal Psychology at Harvard University, and Assistant Physician at the Danvers State Hospital, at Hathorne, Massachusetts, it may be said that After Care in Germany and Austria today is unorganized and relatively ineffective. Surprising to relate, no steps looking toward the instituting of After-Care in the United States were taken until 1893, and even then thirteen years were allowed to pass before an After-Care Committee was finally organized. Meanwhile, and four years before this work had been actively undertaken in the United States by the State Charities Aid Association in New York, Japanese physicians connected with the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Tokio helped organize an After- Care Society which, if its published plan for work has been consist- ently carried out, would seem to be worthy of that progressive nation. Before attempting to give a detailed account of the inauguration of work in After-Care in the United States, it seems advisable to incor- porate in this article the published scopes of the work of those organ- izations which have been or are engaged in After-Care in France, Eng- land, Switzerland, Italy and Japan. It also has been thought best to incorporate certain important papers on After-Care so that the reader may be saved the trouble of searching for them in scattered volumes and reports as the writer had to do. The scopes of the work of the French, English and Swiss After- Care Societies which follow are quoted from Dr. Henry R. Stedman's paper on After-Care of the Insane, read before the National Confer- ence of Charities and Correction in 1898. Of the After-Care Association of the Department of the Seine in France it may be said that it seeks to obtain its objects in three ways: First, it maintains a central convalescent home, the inmates of which are exclusively poor and friendless female convalescents. Their sojourn is temporary, not exceeding five or six weeks, durin» which time they have the advantage of kindly instructions. On leaving, they are introduced to employers and are invited to revisit the home. Second: Another way in which after care is exercised is the Re- unions du Dimanche. That is, on Sundays the home welcomes as