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By Marie Jahoda. Price, $2.75. Pp. 136. Basic Books, Inc., 54 Fourth Ave., New York, 1958.

Roy R. Grinker, M.D., Reviewer

A.M.A. Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1959;81(6):797.

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This is the first of a series of books derived from a national mental health survey by a Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health and supported by the national government through grants authorized by Congress to the National Institute of Mental Health and from some private sources. It is expected that ten monographs will be published in time, followed by a final report, with a summary of findings and recommendations for national and state mental health programs. Certainly this first volume augurs well for the total series, because the author has presented the problems of mental health in succinct and scientific style, with extremely worth-while suggestions for future research.

The author starts out with the assumption that mental health is not the negative of mental illness. It suggests that there is a condition that could be called positive mental health, and this the author takes as her focus for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]