Review of Mental hygiene in public health. (1950). [Review of the book Mental hygiene in public health. P. V. Lemkau]. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 14(3), 236.
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Reviews the book, Mental hygiene in public health by Paul V. Lemkau (1949). This book grew out of the author's experience in teaching mental hygiene to students in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. As such, its audience is primarily professional people who have not specialized in mental health problems. In Part I, there is a well documented argument for the necessity of integrating mental hygiene programs in the work of federal, state and local public health agencies. Part II is a scholarly but easy-to-read summary of personality growth and development from birth to senility. A forty-page appendix is devoted to brief description of the major forms of psychopathology. Another appendix lists appropriate visual aids for use in mental hygiene programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)