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Author Bentley, Paul Roberts, 1962- author.

Title Strange journey : John R. Friedeberg-Seeley and the quest for mental health / by Paul Roberts Bentley.

Publication Info. Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents There was a mother in Israel -- Home child -- Sterilize the unfit -- Pop sociology -- Mental health for Canada -- The transmission of anti-Semitism -- The cold white light of detachment -- How to murder a community -- Film noir -- Analysand -- Nazi terror -- Nervous breakdown -- The unpublished version of Crestwood Heights -- Waspish tone -- Jewish tempers in the village -- The flash -- Uprising at York University.
Summary "This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar social science. He led an ambitious mental health project in Canadian schools, and was a founding father of York University. However, Seeley's struggle with mental illness and Jewish identity brought him into conflict with the Canadian establishment. His career ended in academic exile, but his dream of a mental health revolution still resonates"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Seeley, John R.
Seeley, John R. -- Mental health.
York University (Toronto, Ont.) -- Biography.
York University (Toronto, Ont.)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Social reformers -- Mental health -- Biography.
Social reformers.
Mental health.
Social reformers -- Canada -- Biography.
Canada.
Jews -- Canada -- Biography.
Jews.
Jews -- Canada -- Identity.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Bentley, Paul Roberts, 1962- Strange journey. Boston : Academic Studies Press, [2019] 9781644690499 (DLC) 2019008857
ISBN 1644690519
9781644690512 (electronic book)
9781644690499 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)