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Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States

Economic resources of institutionalized adults. (U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics, 1972), by Philip Frohlich (page images at HathiTrust)
Action against mental disability ; the report. (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1970), by United States. President's Task Force on the Mentally Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
Homeless mentally ill : problems and options in estimating numbers and trends : report to the Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources, U.S. Senate. (United States General Accounting Office, 1988), by United States General Accounting Office and United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
Psychiatric bed needs : an analytical review (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcolhol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Biometry, Survey and Reports Branch ;, 1979), by Leona L. Bachrach and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Division of Biometry and Epidemiology. Survey and Reports Branch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
What do these students have in common? : they are college students who got depressed--got treatment--and got better. (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 2000), by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Patient transfers under the Interstate Compact on Mental Health and under residence laws, 1968-69. (Chicago, 1970), by Interstate Clearing House on Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Mental health, substance-use disorders, and homelessness : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, June 20, 2001. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Health (page images at HathiTrust)
Mentally ill inmates : better data would help determine protection and advocacy needs : report to Congressional requestors (The Office, 1991), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
The 14 worst myths about recovered mental patients (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration ;, 1988), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
NIMH-funded research concerning homeless mentally ill persons : implications for policy and practice : proceedings of the third annual meeting of NIMH-funded researchers studying homeless mentally ill persons ([Place of publication not identified] : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1986., 1986), by Joseph P. Morrissey, Deborah L. Dennis, National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Division of Education and Service Systems Liaison, and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- Biography

A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
Minds that came back. (Lippincott, 1961), by Walter C. Alvarez (page images at HathiTrust)
A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography, by Clifford Whittingham Beers (Gutenberg ebook)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- Care

Amend the Public Health Service Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1479 ... March 19, 1985. (U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- Congresses

Proceedings of the workshop : December 17-18, 1984 : final report. (American Public Health Association, 1985), by D.C.) National Leadership Workshop on the Homeless Mentally Ill (1984 : Washington, National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Office of State and Community Liaison, and American Public Health Association (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- Employment

Guide to job placement of mentally restored people. (President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, 1977), by United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
The mentally restored and work : a successful partnership. (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1981), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- Social conditions

Outcasts on Main Street : report of the Federal Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services in cooperation with the Interagency Council on the Homeless and the Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, 1992), by United States. Task Force on Homelessness and Severe Mental Illness, Alan I. Leshner, United States. Interagency Council on the Homeless, and United States Department of Health and Human Services (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- States

State action in mental health, 1956-57 : a summary of financial, legal and administrative developments in State mental health programs. (Council of State Governments, 1958), by Interstate Clearing House on Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Mentally ill -- United States -- Statistics

Outpatient psychiatric clinics: special statistical report. State and total United States. (Bethesda, Md., [etc.], 1961), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) Outpatient Studies Section and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Office of Biometry (page images at HathiTrust)
State and county mental hospitals, United States, 1973-74 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1976), by Michael J. Witkin (page images at HathiTrust)
The 1967 national survey of institutionalized adults, residents of long-term medical care institutions (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Office of Research and Statistics : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by Philip Frohlich (page images at HathiTrust)
Patterns of retention, release, and death of first admissions to State mental hospitals; the experience during the first 12 months of hospitalization of patients admitted to 11 State hospital systems in 1954 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1959), by Earl S. Pollack (page images at HathiTrust)
Halfway houses serving the mentally ill and alcoholics, United States, 1973 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Biometry, Survey & Reports Branch : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Mildred S. Cannon and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Report on the insane, feeble-minded, deaf and dumb, and blind in the United States at the eleventh census: 1890 (Govt. Print. Off., 1895), by John Shaw Billings and United States Census Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Data on patients of outpatient psychiatric clinics in the United States. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service., between 1000 and 1999), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Patients in state and county mental hospitals, 1967. ([For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1969), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Psychiatric services in general hospitals, 1969-1970. (National Institute of Mental Health; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1972), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Biometry Branch. Survey and Reports Section and Michael J. Witkin (page images at HathiTrust)
Veterans with mental disorders, 1968-1970. (National Institute of Mental Health; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1972), by HEW Dept United States. National Institute of Mental Health (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Eleventh census of the United States, 1890. Volume 3, Insane, feeble-minded, deaf and dumb, and blind (Norman Ross Pub., 1993), by United States. Census Office. 11th census and John S. Billings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Statistical tables, demographic and psychiatric characteristics of patients of outpatient psychiatric clinics in the United States. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Biometrics Branch, Outpatient Studies Section, 1961), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Biometrics Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
Outpatient psychiatric clinics : special statistical report : 1962 adolescents. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Biometrics Branch, Outpatient Studies Section, 1964), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Outpatient Studies Section (page images at HathiTrust)
Characteristics of patients in mental hospitals, United States, April-June, 1963. Statistics on age, sex, color, length of stay, and selected health characteristics of patients in long-stay mental hospitals. Based on data collected in a survey of mental hospitals during April-June, 1963. (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service; [for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1965), by Carl A. Taube (page images at HathiTrust)
Statistical note. (Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Biometry, Survey and Reports Branch, 1974), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Division of Biometry. Survey and Reports Branch (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Church work with the mentally ill -- United States

Community Mental Health: The Role of Church and Temple, ed. by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)

Filed under: Dangerously mentally ill -- United States

Criminal commitments and dangerous mental patients : legal issues of confinement, treatment, and release (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health ;, 1976), by David B. Wexler and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Dangerous behavior : a problem in law and mental health (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency ;, 1978), by Calvin J. Frederick and Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Federal recordkeeping and sex offenders : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, June 19, 1996. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1996), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
Impact of mentally ill offenders on the criminal justice system : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
Bill to provide for the care and custody of insane persons charged with or convicted of offenses against the United States (Government Printing Office, 1948), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Depressed persons -- United States

What do these students have in common? : they are college students who got depressed--got treatment--and got better. (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 2000), by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Insanity (Law) -- United States

Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: A Study in Medico-Sociological Jurisprudence, With an Appendix of State Legislation and Interpretive Decisions, by Sheldon Glueck (page images at HathiTrust)
The guilty mind; psychiatry and the law of homicide. (Harcourt Brace, 1955), by John Biggs (page images at HathiTrust)
Legislation on insanity. A collection of all the lunacy laws of the states and territories of the United States to the year 1883, inclusive. Also the law of England on insanity, legislation in Canada on private houses, and important portions of the lunacy laws of Germany, France, etc. (Priv. print. [Globe Printing House], 1884), by George L. Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
Law, liberty, and psychiatry; an inquiry into the social uses of mental health practices. (Macmillan, 1963), by Thomas Szasz (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual of psychological medicine and allied nervous diseases ... with especial reference to the clinical features of mental diseases, and the allied neuroses, and its medico-legal aspects, with a carefully prepared digest of the lunacy laws in the various states ... designed for the general practitioner of medicine. (P. Blakiston, son & co., 1883), by Edward C. Mann and William J. Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
Patients in hospitals for mental disease: 1926[-1937] (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1930), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
Insanity defense in federal courts hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 6783 and related bills ... July 21, 22; August 12, 17; and September 9, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
Limiting the insanity defense : hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 818, S. 1106, S. 1558, S. 1995, S. 2572, S. 2658, and S. 2669, June 24, 30, and July 14, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law (page images at HathiTrust)
Reform of the federal insanity defense hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on reform of the federal insanity defense, March 16 and 17, April 21, and May 12 and 17, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
Law and mental health (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1991), by Bruce Dennis Sales, Saleem A. Shah, and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
United States laws relating to commitment and care of insane (National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1912), by John Koren and National Committee for Mental Hygiene (page images at HathiTrust)
Insanity laws of all the states (National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1912), by John Koren and National Committee for Mental Hygiene (page images at HathiTrust)
Movies for the farmers in rural public schools. (Palmetto Press, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act (P.L. 99-319) : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Handicapped of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, second session ... May 10, 1988. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
Reform of the federal insanity defense : hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on reform of the federal insanity defense, March 16 and 17, April 21, and May 12 and 17, 1983. (U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
The insanity defense : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 818, S. 1106, S. 1558, S. 2669, S. 2672, S. 2678, S. 2745, and S. 2780 ... July 19 and 28; August 2 and 4, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O., 1982), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
The law of wills. Part II, Devises, legacies, and testamentary trusts ; their construction, discharge, and mode of enforcement (Little, Brown, 1870), by Isaac F. Redfield (page images at HathiTrust)
Medical jurisprudence of insanity : or forensic psychiatry (Lawyers' Co-operative, 1898), by Shobal Vail Clevenger and F. H. Bowlby (page images at HathiTrust)
Use of seclusion and restraints in mental hospitals : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, October 26, 1999. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance (page images at HathiTrust)
A manual of psychological medicine and allied nervous diseases : containing the description, etiology, diagnosis, pathology and treatment of insanity, with especial reference to the clinical features of mental diseases and the allied neuroses and its medico-legal aspects with a carefully prepared digest of the lunacy laws in the various states relating to the care, custody and responsibility of the insane (J. & A. Churchill, 1883), by Edward C. Mann (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise on the medical jurisprudence of insanity. (Little, Brown, and company, 1871), by Isaac Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
Litigation and mental health services (National Institute of Mental Health, 1975), by Louis E. Kopolow and National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Competency to stand trial (U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Development, Testing, and Dissemination, 1985), by Debra Whitcomb, Ronald L. Brandt, Testing National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Office of Development, and Abt Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
Impact of mentally ill offenders on the criminal justice system : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
Insanity defense in federal courts : hearings before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 6783 and related bills ... July 21, 22; August 12, 17; and September 9, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1983), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice (page images at HathiTrust)
Limiting the insanity defense : hearings before the Subcomittee on Criminal Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Law (page images at HathiTrust)
The insanity defense : hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on S. 818, S. 1106, S. 1558, S. 2669, S. 2672, S. 2678, S. 2745, and S. 2780 ... July 19 and 28; August 2 and 4, 1982. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1983), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
Two cases of insanity before ecclesiastical courts (Van Houten & Co., 1884), by John Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
Some illustrations of the working of the plea of insanity in criminal prosecutions : a plea for the better regulation of expert testimony (Published at the office of the Association [American Medical Association], 1892), by Richard Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
Insanity and the immigration law (State Hospitals Press, 1911), by Thomas W. Salmon (page images at HathiTrust)
Political assassinations in some of their relations to psychiatry and legal medicine ([n.p., 1901), by Charles K. Mills (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Simulated insanity (American Medical Association, 1909), by Charles K. Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
What recent investigations have shown to be the relation between mental defect and crime (Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, 1916), by Albert Warren Stearns (page images at HathiTrust)
Forensic psychiatry. (The Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing Company, 1898), by Shobal Vail Clevenger and F. H. Bowlby (page images at HathiTrust)
Patients in hospitals for mental disease : 1923 (preliminary bulletin) (U.S.Govt. print.off., 1926), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
The mentally disabled and the law : the report of the project on the rights of the mentally ill, on the status of the mentally ill, mentally deficient, epileptics, alcoholics, drug addicts, psychopaths and criminally insane in American law. (American Bar Foundation, 1958), by American Bar Foundation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Modern persecution, or Married woman's liabilities, as demonstrated by the action of the Illinois Legislature (Case, Lockwood & Brainard, printers and binders., 1874), by E. P. W. Packard and Lockwood & Brainard Co Case (page images at HathiTrust)
Juries and physicians on questions of insanity (J.R. McDivitt, 1872), by R. S. Guernsey and Medico-Legal Society of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
A summary of the laws of the several states governing I.--Marriage and divorce of the feebleminded, : the epileptic and the insane. (The Bailey and Babette Gatzert foundation for child welfare, May, 1914), by Stevenson Smith, Lovisa C. Wagoner, and Madge W. Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Progress in the care and treatment of the insane during the half-century. (Chicago, 1894), by Edward Cowles (page images at HathiTrust)
Constitutional rights of the mentally ill : hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, first session. (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1961., 1961), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)

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