Mental health of the poor : new treatment approaches for low income people / edited by Frank Riessman, Jerome Cohen [and] Arthur Pearl. - New York : Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. - xv,648 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies

Contents: Part I. Poverty, mental illness, and treatment --Poverty and inequality in America : implications for the social services / S.M. Miller --Social class, mental illness, and American psychiatry: an expository review / S.M. Miller and Elliot G. Mishler --Comparison of experience and behavior of lower and higher status groups: findings and hypotheses / Thomas Langner --A survey of mental disease in an urban population: prevalence by race and income / Benjamin Pasamanick, Dean W. Roberts, Paul W. Lemkou, and Dean B. Krueger --Toward an assessment of the mental health of factory workers: a Detroit study / Arthur Kornhauser -- Social class and the mental health movement / Orville R. Gursslin, Raymond G. Hunt, and Jack L. Roach --Social class and psychiatric treatment / Norman Q. Brill and Hugh A. Storrow -- Expectations of psychotherapy in patients of lower socioeconomic class / Betty Overall and H. Aronson --The socially handicapped and the agencies: a market analysis / Harry C. Bredemeier Part 2. Low income behavior and cognitive style -- A survey of working- and lower-class studies / Herbert Gans --Social work and the culture of poverty / Jerome Cohen --The American lower classes: a typological approach / S.M. Miller --Routine-seekers and action-seekers / Herbert Gans --Social class and parent-child relationships: an interpretation / Melvin L. Kohn --The disadvantaged child and the learning process / Martin P. Deutsch --Are the deprived non-verbal? / Frank Riessman --Social class, speech systems, and psycho-therapy / Basil Bernstein --The power of the poor / Warren C. Haggstrom Part 3. Psychotherapeutic approaches for low income people --The role of socioeconomic class in examiner bias / William Haase --Social class and projective tests / Frank Riessman and S.M. Miller -- Situational testing of social psychological variables in personality / Jerome Beker, Eugene Eliasoph, and David Resnik -- Early language behavior in Negro children and the testing of intelligence / Benjamin Pasamanick and Hilda Knobloch --A short story on the long waiting list / Rachel A. Levine --Counseling socially disadvantaged children / Edmund W. Gordon --The working class psychiatric patient: a clinical view / James T. McMahon --Some cultural aspects of transference and countertransference / John P. Spiegel --Educational therapy: a methodical approach to the problem of the "untreatable" child / Hertha Riese --Treatment in the home: an experiment with low income, multi-problem families / Rachel A. Levine -- Role playing and the poor / Frank Riessman and Jean Goldfarb --Experimential group treatment of severely deprived latency-age children / Saul Scheidlinger --Preventive intervention / Berta Fantl --Techniques of service / Janet E. Weinandy --Personality adjustment through social action /Rudolph M. Wittenberg --Negroes in psychotherapy / Harold Rosen and Jerome D. Frank --Youth and social action: perspectives on the student sit-in movement / Jacob R. Fishman and Fredric Solomon --New concepts and patterns of service: the mobilization for youth program / George Brager --The Chicago area plan for workers' mental health / Ted Ruhig --"20-minute hour" --The helping professions and the problems of the brief contact in low income areas / Francis P. Purcell --"Open Hospital" for mental ills may aid worked-up workers --Issues in the New National Mental Health Program relating to labor and low income groups / Robert Reiff and Sylvia Scribner Part 4. Rehabilitation of the criminal, the delinquent, and the drug addict --It's time to start counting / J. Douglas Grant --Factors in the success of Highfields / G. Howland Shaw --The Highfields Program: a critique and evaluation / Arthur Pearl --A group dynamics approach to the treatment of nonconformists in the Navy / J. Douglas Grant and Marguerite Q. Grant --The halfway house: the focal point of a model program for the rehabilitation of low income offenders / Arthur Pearl --The Provo experiment in delinquency rehabilitation / LaMar T. Empey and Jerome Rabow --Delinquency programs in the open community / Donald A. Cook --The effectiveness of a comprehensive, vocationally oriented psychotherapeutic program for adolescent delinquent boys / Joseph L. Massimo and Milton F. Shore --The impact of a community group work program on delinquent corner groups / Walter B. Miller --Dead end story / Paul Goodman --Improving services for street-corner youth / George Brager --Delinquents with tape recorders / R.R. Schwitzgebel --Film experiment with delinquent boys: neighbors, Black Patch, Little Grey Neck / Celia M. Anderson and Carol C. Smith --Narcotic addiction is a special problem / Arthur Pearl -- Differential association and the rehabilitation of drug addicts / Rita Volkman and Donald R. Cressey --An addict tells his story / Interview by Arthur Pearl --Response of adult heroin addicts to a total therapeutic program / Alfred M. Freedman, Clifford J. Sager, Edwin L. Rabiner, and Richard E. Brotman.


Mental hygiene--United States
Poor--United States

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