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- Publication Date
- 2018-04-17
- Edition Number
- 3
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN
- 9781517903640
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
1517903645
ISBN-13
9781517903640
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239883201
Product Key Features
Edition
3
Book Title
Crusade for Forgotten Souls : Reforming Minnesota's Mental Institutions, 1946-1954
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Psychopathology / General, Nursing / Psychiatric & Mental Health, History, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Psychology, History, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-055867
Reviews
"Using rich empirical detail, Susan Bartlett Foote's integrated approach simultaneously reconstructs life in an asylum and a mental health reform campaign. Engla Schey's journal--a historian's dream resource--allows patients to speak, processes the attendants' experiences, and captures the culture of state institutions. Foote has managed to keep patients, medical workers, reformers, state policies, and the impact of changes visible throughout this story."--Jennifer Gunn, University of Minnesota "In a wondrous feat of research and storytelling, Susan Bartlett Foote has distilled personal accounts, public and institutional records, and newspaper coverage to dramatically detail Minnesota's mental health reform of the last century. Her narrative is harrowing and inspiring--a tribute to the difficult work of countless people, many of them outraged ordinary folk, who challenged the horrors of a stubborn and intractable system."--Jack El-Hai, author of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist and The Lobotomist " The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts the story of courageous Minnesotans who fought the first battle in the ongoing fight for the rights of the mentally ill. Others have taken up the cause, like my father, Paul Wellstone, who made mental health reform the centerpiece of his years in the United States Senate. Susan Bartlett Foote's compelling story provides an inspiration to current reformers to continue the crusade for what my father called 'a besieged minority.'"--Dave Wellstone, "Susan Bartlett Foote's exhaustively researched book gives compelling evidence that even by the standards of the time, Minnesota's system of segregated mental institutions was backward, barbaric and particularly resistant to social change."-- Star Tribune, "Using rich empirical detail, Susan Bartlett Foote's integrated approach simultaneously reconstructs life in an asylum and a mental health reform campaign. Engla Schey's journal--a historian's dream resource--allows patients to speak, processes the attendants' experiences, and captures the culture of state institutions. Foote has managed to keep patients, medical workers, reformers, state policies, and the impact of changes visible throughout this story."--Jennifer Gunn, University of Minnesota, "Susan Bartlett Foote's exhaustively researched book gives compelling evidence that even by the standards of the time, Minnesota's system of segregated mental institutions was backward, barbaric and particularly resistant to social change."-- Star Tribune "The historian's dream scenario--serendipitously stumbling upon a cache of previously unexamined documents in one's own home--prompted Susan Bartlett Foote's inquiry into a group of post-war reformers who envisioned nothing less than a complete overhaul of Minnesota's mental health system." --Social History of Medicine Journal, Oxford Press
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Dewey Decimal
362.2109776
Table Of Content
Preface Introduction 1. Voices of Forgotten Souls 2. Finding Engla Schey 3. Engla Crashes the Gates 4. Spreading the Gospel 5. The Modest Visionary 6. The Arduous Climb 7. Where There Is Smoke 8. Political Dynamite 9. The Long Hot Summer 10. Making History 11. The First Step 12. Lest We Forget Epilogue Significant Organizations Notes Index
Synopsis
Winner of the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The stirring story of the reform movement that laid the groundwork for a modern mental health system in Minnesota In 1940 Engla Schey, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, took a job as a low-paid attendant at Anoka State Hospital, one of Minnesota's seven asylums. She would work among people who were locked away under the shameful label "insane," called inmates--and numbered more than 12,000 throughout the state. She acquired the knowledge and passion that would lead to "The Crusade for Forgotten Souls," a campaign to reform the deplorable condition of mental institutions in Minnesota. This book chronicles that remarkable undertaking inspired and carried forward by ordinary people under the political leadership of Luther Youngdahl, a Swedish Republican who was the state's governor from 1946 to 1951. Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of those who made the crusade a success: Engla Schey, the catalyst; Reverend Arthur Foote, a modest visionary who guided Unitarians to constructive advocacy; Genevieve Steefel, an inveterate patient activist; and Geri Hoffner, an intrepid reporter whose twelve-part series for the Minneapolis Tribune galvanized the public. These reformers overcame barriers of class, ethnicity, and gender to stand behind the governor, who, at a turbulent moment in Minnesota politics, challenged his own party's resistance to reform. The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts how these efforts broke the stigma of shame and silence surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state's asylums, built support among citizens, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system that catapulted Minnesota to national leadership and empowered families of the mentally ill and disabled. Though their vision met resistance, the accomplishments of these early advocates for compassionate care of the mentally ill hold many lessons that resonate to this day, as this book makes compellingly clear., The stirring story of the reform movement that laid the groundwork for a modern mental health system in Minnesota In 1940 Engla Schey, the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, took a job as a low-paid attendant at Anoka State Hospital, one of Minnesota's seven asylums. She would work among people who were locked away under the shameful label "insane,"called inmates--and numbered more than 12,000 throughout the state. She acquired the knowledge and passion that would lead to "The Crusade for Forgotten Souls,"a campaign to reform the deplorable condition of mental institutions in Minnesota. This book chronicles that remarkable undertaking inspired and carried forward by ordinary people under the political leadership of Luther Youngdahl, a Swedish Republican who was the state's governor from 1946 to 1951.Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of those who made the crusade a success: Engla Schey, the catalyst; Reverend Arthur Foote, a modest visionary who guided Unitarians to constructive advocacy; Genevieve Steefel, an inveterate patient activist; and Geri Hoffner, an intrepid reporter whose twelve-part series for the Minneapolis Tribune galvanized the public. These reformers overcame barriers of class, ethnicity, and gender to stand behind the governor, who, at a turbulent moment in Minnesota politics, challenged his own party's resistance to reform. The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts how these efforts broke the stigma of shame and silence surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state's asylums, built support among citizens, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system that catapulted Minnesota to national leadership and empowered families of the mentally ill and disabled. Though their vision met resistance, the accomplishments of these early advocates for compassionate care of the mentally ill hold many lessons that resonate to this day, as this book makes compellingly clear.
LC Classification Number
RC445.M58
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