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Strange Journey: John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health

By Paul Roberts Bentley
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By Paul Roberts Bentley
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This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent “Pop Sociologist” and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s.

Seeley’s "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar social science.

He led an ambitious ...

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