Signs of Sanity and the Principles of Mental Hygiene (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by Stewart Paton

Overview

In this 1922 work Paton addresses the unmet need to tend professionally to mental health as well as physical health. Asking whether humankind possesses sufficient soundness of mind to exercise intelligent control over civilization, he covers such topics as “Are Sanity and Insanity Inherited?”, “The Sound Body,” and “Man’s Old and New Brain.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411462816
Publisher:	Union Square & Co.
Publication date:	10/04/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	268
File size:	381 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Stewart Paton (1865-1942) was born in New York City. A physician and educator, he graduated from Princeton and received his M.D. from Columbia University. He founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. His works include Human Behavior, Psychiatry: A Text-Book for Students and Physicians, Education in War and Peace, and Prohibiting Minds and the Present Social and Economic Crisis.

Stewart Paton (1865-1942) was born in New York City. A physician and educator, he graduated from Princeton and received his M.D. from Columbia University. He founded the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. His works include Human Behavior, Psychiatry: A Text-Book for Students and Physicians, Education in War and Peace, and Prohibiting Minds and the Present Social and Economic Crisis.