Excerpt from The Principles of Mental Hygiene For many years a small group of philanthropically minded persons have been fighting the battles of the failures in life and trying to secure for them an adequate understanding which should be the basis for creating a new, a more enlightened, and a constructive and helpful program for dealing with them. Despite the length of time this movement in its various ramifications has been in existence, and the number of people who have been engaged in it, and, too, the high type of many so engaged, there never has issued from its sponsors anything that could properly be called a comprehensive program, an adequate statement of principles scientifically founded and practically workable. The reason for this seems to me clear. These persons had no such program, they had no such principles, their moving force was faith. Many, perhaps all, great movements, are thus shadowed forth in their origins by the faith that is in those who believe in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This is the definitive textbook on global mental health, an emerging priority discipline within global health, which places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.