Mental Health and Contemporary Thought

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1967 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> Part 1 Mental Health and the Contemporary International Scene; Chapter 1 Industrialization; Chapter 2 Social Change; Chapter 3 Individual Change; Chapter 4 Population Problems; Chapter 5 Individual Aggressiveness and War; Chapter 6 Fear of Nuclear Destruction; Part 2 Problems of Conceptualization; Chapter 7 Conceptualization of Mental Health; Chapter 8 An Operational Description; Part 3 Professional Training and Public Education; Chapter 9 Professional Training in Mental Health Subjects; Chapter 10 Towards a Common Training Policy; Chapter 11 The Special Needs of Developing Areas; Chapter 12 Public Education for Mental Health; Chapter 13 Public Education and Mental Health Problems; Chapter 14 Other Mental Health Educational Methods; Chapter 15 Use of the Mass Media in Mental Health EducationPart 4 Bibliography;