A mind that found itself : an autobiography

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Label

A mind that found itself : an autobiography

Title remainder

an autobiography

Statement of responsibility

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Creator

• Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists
• Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943
• Beers, Clifford Whittingham, 1876-1943
• Biographies
• Biography
• Electronic books
• MEDICAL -- Mental Health
• Mentally ill
• Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
• Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
• Psychiatric hospital patients -- Abuse of
• Psychiatric hospital patients -- Abuse of
• Psychiatric hospitals -- Admission and discharge
• Psychiatric hospitals -- Admission and discharge
• United States
• Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biographies
• Biography
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Annotation

Member of

• EBSCO eBook Public Library Collection-North America

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

NZ1

Dewey number

362.2/092/4

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC439

LC item number

.B4 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Summary expansion

When he was twenty-four years old, Clifford Whittingham Beers was interred in a mental asylum. He remained there for three years, battling his mental illness. In his autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, he recounts the civil war that took place in his mind. The publication of this book in 1908 caused huge public outcry and began an inquiry into the state of mental health care. It contributed significantly to the beginnings of the modern mental health movement