Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers (March 30, 1876 – July 9, 1943) was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement.[1]

Humanitarian and advocate for the mentally ill. He founded the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene. Once a patient himself, he helped reform the treatment of people with mental disorders. Through his efforts the National Association for Mental Health was founded. His autobiography. "A Mind That Found Itself," is a classic in the field of psychology.

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“No incidents of my life have ever impressed themselves more indelibly on my memory than those of my first night in a strait-jacket. Within one hour of the time I was placed in it I was suffering pain as intense as any I ever endured, and before the night had passed it had become almost unbearable,” Clifford Beers wrote. “Though I cried and moaned, in fact, screamed so loudly that the attendants must have heard me, little attention was paid to me. . . . After 15 interminable hours the strait-jacket was removed.”1 In 1908 Clifford Beers spearheaded mental health...

References

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11059017/clifford-whittingham-b...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Whittingham_Beers cites
   1. Thomas Szasz (2008). Psychiatry:The Science of Lies. p. 98.
   2. "Clifford Whittingham Beers". History of the Class of 1897, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University: Decennial Record 1897–1907. New Haven: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company. 1907. p. 4.
   3. Clifford Beers, A Mind That Found Itself, Pittsburgh and London: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981 ISBN 0-8229-5324-2 < Archive.Org >
   4. Norman Dain, Clifford W. Beers, Advocate for the Insane, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. < Archive.Org >