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“Protection of Mental Health” is an introduction into the diagnostics, research and practice of Mental Hygiene. For the protection of the individual and the nation against disturbances in character and psychic maldevelopment Mental Hygiene is of the same importance as preventive medicine for the protection against infectious diseases.
This monograph of 223 pages consists of three parts. Part I deals with general comments, diagnosis, prophylaxis, special Mental Hygiene; Part II deals with observations on the sick as basis of research and aim in Mental Hygiene; Part III brings the practical use of Mental Hygiene as explained on several examples in education and reeducation: Mental Hygiene in early education, in the first school year, at puberty, in adult life, in senescence.
In the first chapters the author brings the historical development of Mental Hygiene in Europe and also the founding of Mental Hygiene in