Mental hygiene : two years' experience of a clinical psychologist / by Lillien J. Martin.

  • Lillien Jane Martin
Date:
1920
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Credit: Mental hygiene : two years' experience of a clinical psychologist / by Lillien J. Martin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    menapause and old age. Others whom I saw were persons having difficulty in controlling their thoughts or emotions, or who had lost the ability to hold their attention to the work in hand, or had found that their memories were weak¬ ening! melancholy persons; “shut-in” personalities avoiding the society of others and feeling that they were misunder¬ stood, slighted, or shunned by their family and friends; neurasthenics who lacked the initiative to find and hold a position; those who found that they were not in an em¬ ployment suited to them and sought advice as to what they were really fitted to do; young people who wanted help in choosing a vocation; excitable, irresponsible, high-strung, uncontrolled persons; psychopathic individuals and insane persons; the prematurely old; adolescent boys and girls, sometimes hysterical, who were not understood by them¬ selves or by those around them, and longed for sympathy and guidance; backward, feeble-minded children who had stolen; children difficult to control at home and at school; parents who not only took too much alcohol themselves, but were even giving it to their children; those whose families were at the point of disruption. All were not ignorant or poor among them were a college professor, an influential business man, a leading newspaper writer, and an editor. In short, people came who wished to increase not alone their happiness, but also their effectiveness. Unfortunately, in¬ formation giving and advertising in regard to mental hygiene work must be more or less kept up, as the advertis¬ ing which comes through one consulter’s telling another that he has been helped by a given psychologist is very much less than in the case of the patient of a physician, as consulters hesitate to say that they have received benefit from his treatment, fearing that others may think they have been mentally affected.