ioctoral Dissertation Research: Mental Hygiene and the Psychiatry of Adjustment, 1908-1948

美国精神卫生运动（英语：American mental hygiene movement）是美国进步时代的一场改革运动，旨在发展和应用精神病学、心理学和社会工作来缓解现代性的问题。 它的倡导者将心理健康定义为个人对社会环境的适应。根据它的观点，社会问题可以通过提高个人的适应技能或通过社会工程来解决。 在这个博士在本论文中，研究者调查了这些观念、专业干预策略和实践以及关于心理健康构成的文化观念之间的相互作用。 精神卫生运动的机构基础是1909年成立的全国精神卫生委员会。 全国医务委员会协调专业活动，与大型慈善机构保持联系以组织资金，并在专业和整个社会中传播其观点。 NCMH的利益从关注精神疾病转移到预防;然后扩大预防范围，包括社会适应不良;最后，促进调整或心理健康。 这些心理健康的理想既反映了男性气质、公民身份和正常性的文化理想，又通过科学的中性语言和专业实践来加强这些理想。 M

The American mental hygiene movement was a reformist movement characteristic of the Progressive Era that sought to develop and apply psychiatry, psychology, and social work to alleviate the problems of modernity. Its advocates defined mental health as the individual's adjustment to the social environment. According to its perspective, social problems could be solved either by increasing the adaptive skills of individuals or through social engineering. In this Ph.D. dissertation, the researcher investigates the interaction between these ideas, professional intervention strategies and practices, and cultural ideas about what constitutes mental health. The institutional basis for the mental hygiene movement was the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, which was founded in 1909. The NCMH coordinated professional activities, maintained connections with large philanthropies to organize funding, and disseminated its perspective within the professions and society at large. The interests of the NCMH moved from a concern with mental illness to its prevention; then the broadening of the scope of prevention to include social maladjustment; and finally, the promotion of adjustment or mental health. These ideals of mental health both reflected cultural ideals of masculinity, citizenship, and normality, and reinforced them by their presentation in the neutral language of science and through the professional practices it developed. M