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Mind the gap: MIND, the mental hygiene movement and the trapdoor in measurements of intellect
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Toms, Jonathan (2010) Mind the gap: MIND, the mental hygiene movement and the trapdoor in measurements of intellect. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, Vol.54 (No.Suppl. 1). pp. 16-27. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2009.01234.x
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2009.01234.x
Abstract
Background
The National Association for Mental Health adopted the 'brand name' MIND as part of its transformation into a campaigning pressure group at the turn of the 1970s. This article examines the historical antecedents to key statements made by the organisation at this time regarding the relationship of mental health with, what was then called, 'mental handicap'.
Methods
The National Association is placed within the historical context of the movement for mental hygiene. The article traces how the movement theorised mental health as critically related to intellect and emotionality.
Results
The movement relegated people deemed 'mentally deficient' from therapeutic policies based on family relationships believed to promote mental health. However, a late 1950s experiment known as the Brooklands study subverted this discrimination. This was paradoxical since it built on mental hygiene theorising.
Conclusions
Theorisations of the relationship between intellect, emotion and mental health are still potentially discriminatory.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education Q Science > QH Natural history > QH426 Genetics R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine Faculty of Arts > History |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Intellectual Disability Research | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0964-2633 | ||||
| Official Date: | April 2010 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.54 | ||||
| Number: | No.Suppl. 1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 12 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 16-27 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2788.2009.01234.x | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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