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Strange Journey
John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health
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English
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2020
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This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent “Pop Sociologist” and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley’s "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar social science. He led an ambitious mental health project in Canadian schools, and was a founding father of York University. However, Seeley’s struggle with mental illness and Jewish identity brought him into conflict with the Canadian establishment. His career ended in academic exile, but his dream of a mental health revolution still resonates.
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Paul Roberts Bentley holds an MSc. (Econ) in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and an Ed. D. in the History and Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a History Teacher and Head of Department in Ontario High Schools for over 25 years.
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Contents
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Prologue
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1. There Was a Mother in Israel
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2. Home Child
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3. From Civilian to Fighting Man
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4. Pop Sociology
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5. Mental Health for Canada
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6. The Transmission of Anti-Semitism
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7. The Cold White Light of Detachment
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8. Free Discussion
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9. Anti-Semitic Segregation
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10. Film Noir
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11. Unorthodox Psycho-Analysis
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12. Nazi Terror
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13. Nervous Breakdown
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14. The Unpublished Version of Crestwood Heights
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15. Waspish Tone
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16. Jewish Tempers in the Village
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17. The Flash
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18. Uprising at York University
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Epilogue
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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April 6, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9781644690512
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284
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9781644690512
Keywords for this book
John R. Friedeberg Seeley; pop sociologist; mental health; activist; activism; Education; Canadian Education; Eugenics; Sociology; Psychoanalysis; Canadian Jews; Jewish history; army medical corps; Home Children; Suicide in the Military; Historiography; university of chicago; social science; Toronto Star; 1950s; 1960s; academic biographies; Mental Health Movement; antisemitism in Canada; crestwood heights; york university
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
