Research Catalog

Title

Prevention through political action and social change / Justin M. Joffe and George W. Albee, editors.

Author

Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology (5th : 1979 : Burlington, Vt.)

Publication

Hanover [N.H.] : Published for the Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology by University Press of New England, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Joffe, Justin M.
• Albee, George W.

Description

x, 366 pages.

Series Statement

Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology. Primary prevention of psychopathology ; 5

Uniform Title

Primary prevention of psychopathology ; 5.

Subject

• Psychology, Pathological > Prevention > Congresses
• Psychology, Pathological > Congresses
• Mental illness > Prevention > Congresses
• Social change > Congresses
• Politics, Practical
• Social change
• Mental Disorders > prevention & control
• Politics
• Social Change
• politics
• Social change
• Psychology, Pathological
• Politics, Practical
• Mental illness > Prevention
• Psychology, Pathological > Prevention
• Preventie
• Psychische stoornissen

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers presented at the fifth Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology held at Burlington, Vt. in June 1979.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Politics, power, prevention, and social change / George W. ALbee -- On "preventing psychopathology" : a libertarian analysis / Thomas Szasz -- Bureaucratizing values / Burton Blatt -- The politics of aging : dilemmas and opportunities / Robert H. Binstock -- Talking to your children's souls : portraits of deprivation / Thomas J. Cottle -- Dilemmas of social intervention : a retrospective analysis of the politics and contradictions of timidity / I. Ira Goldenberg -- Conceptual barriers to training for the primary prevention of psychopathology / Ira Iscoe -- Political and social action in the prevention of psychopathology of Blacks : a mental health strategy for oppressed people / Thomas O. Hilliard -- "Mediacracy" : mass media and psychopathology / David Manning White -- Economic democracy, education, and social change / Henry M. Levin -- There are no panaceas, but let's look at some promising developments / Edward M. Glaser -- Coercing changes in prisons and mental hospitals : the social scientist and the class action suit / Stanley L. Brodsky, Kent S. Miller -- Social change, social action as prevention : the role of the professional / Gisela Konopka -- Women, new patterns, problems, possibilities / Betty Friedan -- Community action programs, an appraisal / Kenneth B. Clark -- Neighborhoods, politics, and mental health / Sharland Trotter -- The education of the oppressed child in a democracy / Ned O'Gorman -- The prevention and control of "antisocial behavior" in revolutionary Cuba / Susan M. Rigdon -- Revolutionary optimism : models for commitment ot community from other societies / Ruth Sidel and Victor W. Sidel -- Powerlessness and psychopathology / Justin M. Joffe, George W. Albee -- Themes and variations / M. Brewster Smith -- Messages for preventionists / Stephen E. Goldston.

ISBN

• 9780874511871
• 0874511879

LCCN

80051504

OCLC

• ocm07717020
• 7717020
• SCSB-64772

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library