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Personal Story

Personal Story. Have you ever heard of?. PTSD – otherwise known as shell shock. Post traumatic stress syndrome Why causes it? What can be done about it? Who first started a serious study of it in the United States?. Group Therapy. Why is it benefitial ?

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Personal Story

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  1. Personal Story Have you ever heard of?

  2. PTSD – otherwise known as shell shock • Post traumatic stress syndrome • Why causes it? • What can be done about it? • Who first started a serious study of it in the United States?

  3. Group Therapy • Why is it benefitial? • How did it become a common practice in the US?

  4. Adolescent Psychology • When did this time of life begin to be looked at as an insightful period into mental health? • Before it was introduced how were adolescents and teenagers, and even children, considered?

  5. Early Childhood Development • When did it become a practice to look at what happens in early childhood as a determining factor for behavior later in life? • Do you believe this to be important also?

  6. National Committee for Mental Hygiene • Aimed to increase the status of psychiatry • Arranging for funding for medical research • Improving the care provided to individuals in mental hospitals • Prevention as the most effective measure to decrease the incidence of mental illnesses.

  7. Intervention • Proaction instead of reaction – a concept that it is better to try to find the cause of a mental illness, treat that, and understand it, instead of simply treating the symptoms of mental illness.

  8. Ask yourself why • Look back at what the cause is and it can possibly be fixed and prevented in others. • A basic principle.

  9. Have you heard of Occupational therapy Group therapy PTSD – before this presentation Clinics for juvenile delinquents

  10. Do you know the name of these psychologists? • Sigmund Freud • Frankwood Williams • Out of these two – who would you guess is most responsible for what advances in psychology I have presented so far?

  11. Why have you never heard of him? • You have heard of what he did, but why have you never heard of him personally?

  12. Frankwood Williams • American Psychologist – 1883-1936 • Helped found the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in 1909 • Studied the effects of war on civilians and soldiers in Europe after World War I • Through these studies his methods of treatment for shell-shock developed and are still used today

  13. Through these studies – he added credence and drove home the idea of occupational therapy by setting up in hospitals groups of America nurses and women to engage patients in practical activities • Was the first in the US to suggest that preventative strategies could fend off many mental illnesses

  14. Communism • Here is the reason you will have never heard of him – during the 1950s – after his death – all of his books and studies were taken out of libraries and he was branded a Communist by the House on UnAmerican Activities which was led by Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin

  15. A Locked Trunk • Here is why I know who he was • In 2000 we put my grandfather in a home. While clearing out his house we found a trunk under a table. It was old so I broke off the lock of the trunk. Inside were photos, scrapbooks, and writings wrapped in plastic bags. I broke off the plastic and found all of this information on a man name Frankwood Williams.

  16. Here is why McCarthy went after him • In the late 1920s – mental illnesses – especially depression increased. Why? • Dr. Williams who had been traveling to Europe for decades to study the effects of the war was allowed to enter Russia – a country that was incredibly affected by the war. It was an opportunity that he couldn’t pass up. • Stalin had built model villages that he allowed Westerners to tour.

  17. Seeing and touring these villages and hearing how well-adjusted and happy the people within them were, Dr. Williams deduced that communism could really work as it gave people a structure that was safe and secure. • Information dissemination not being what it is today, Williams returned to the US talking about and lecturing on how communism had helped people in Europe.

  18. He did several tours of other European countries. He died on a ship of kidney failure in 1936 on a return to the US. • In the 1950s, McCarthy was going to wipe out communism. Williams had never been a member of the Communist party, but he had published papers on how Communism worked.

  19. After removing Williams’ texts from the Library of Congress. McCarthy and the FBI collected all his works to destroy them. • One place they went was a small library in Wisconsin that was run by a woman name Ora Green – Frankwood’s sister. • The FBI ransacked her house, subjected her to questioning, and took what she had of Frankwood to destroy. They also went through the library she ran.

  20. Ora Green had a nervous breakdown and her daughters took everything she had concerning Frankwood, wrapped it in plastic and locked it in a trunk. • Frankwood was never mentioned again. • Ora Green was my great-grandmother, Frankwood Williams was my great-great-uncle. • My great aunt told me this story after I found the contents inside the locked trunk.

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