What Are the Facts about Mental Illness?
- Contributor(s):
- National Committee Against Mental Illness
- Publication:
- National Committee Against Mental Illness, 1966
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospitals, Psychiatric Health Care Reform Insurance Legislation as Topic
- Genre(s):
- Archival Materials Reports Pamphlets
- Abstract:
- Gorman was Executive Director of the National Committee Against Mental Illness from 1953 to 1989. The mental illness fact books were part of the organization's mission to improve public understanding of mental illness and generate popular support for federal, state, and local preventive mental health programs emphasizing research, training, and expanded clinic and community services. The 1966 edition reflects changes in mental health legislation and in the NCAMI's focus, e.g., alcoholism had become a target area. Readers could also see how Americans' mental health expenditures compared to those for highways or other public services, and learn of progress in insurance coverage for mental illness.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 65 pages
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101743403X88 (See in Profiles in Science)
- Profiles in Science ID:
- TGBBGH
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101743403X88
- Archival Collection:
- The Mike Gorman Papers (Profiles in Science)