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1. Dr. Summers tells us “one of the earliest iterations of mental hygiene was the practice of “boarding out.” (200) What do you think of this practice? Did it help the patient acclimate to their community?
2. The book emphasizes that “racist assumptions figured into the diagnostic and therapeutic assessments” of African American mental patients. (213) What kind of “racist assumptions about the black psyche” is Dr. Summers referring to? (216)
3. Chapter 9 tells us following WWII younger psychiatrists “sought to infuse the profession with a more socially responsible vision “based on their observations and interactions with military patients.”(249) Is social psychiatry a by-product of wartime trauma? If so, why do you think the “shell shocked” generation of traumatized WWI veterans were largely ignored by the psychiatric community.
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