Social Values, the Mental Health Movement, and Mental Health
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Abstract
ANY attempt to describe the relations between social values and mental health must take account of the social movement that marches under the banner of "mental health" or "mental hygiene." That movement is itself an expression of, and a result of, a revolution in social values; it also affects social values, and, presumably, mental health. I should like, therefore, first to state briefly how the sociologist looks at the relation between social values and personality, and what he knows about it; second, to turn attention to the origin and growth of the mental health movement in relation to general changes in the values in our culture; and, last, to raise some questions about the effects of the movement both on values and on mental health.