ThinkIR: The University of Louisville\u27s Institutional Repository
Abstract
Interest in the field of Mental Hygiene and psychiatry has been stimulated by tensions of World War II. As in other communities there are mental hygiene and psychiatric facilities in Louisville. Kentucky. Since there is no available history compiled of this development such a study seems especially valuable at this time. How the community has gone about meeting the needs in this area of work in the past may be seen through such a study and may in turn prove a guide for future planning. The purpose of this dissertation is to trace the history and development of the Louisville Mental Hygiene Clinic. Beginning with an over-all survey of the mental hygiene movement from its inception in 1908. it traces the phases through which the concept passed nationally, then locally
