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Remembering the West End: social science, mental health and the American urban environment, 1939–1968
Ist Teil von
Urban history, 2018-02, Vol.45 (1), p.128-149
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
Analysing the urban renewal of Boston's West End during the 1950s, we examine how psychiatrists, social scientists and urban planners understood the relationship between the urban environment and mental health. For psychiatrist Erich Lindemann, the West End offered a unique opportunity to study how acute stress and loss affected populations, thus contributing to social psychiatry, which sought to prevent mental illness by addressing factors in the social and physical environment. While Lindemann's project provided a sophisticated response to the often simplistic arguments about the cities and mental health, it also highlighted the challenges of applying social psychiatric theory in practice.