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Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
BEERS, CLIFFORD WHITTINGHAM. A Mind That Found Itself. first edition * A Mind That Found Itself . . . Third Edition. Third printing, signed and inscribed by beers. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, original cloth, the second with stamp on top and bottom edges, and shelf label removed from spine; institutional stamp on titles; bookplates. New York, 1908; 1914
"Clifford Beers, a graduate of Yale who had suffered several severe psychotic episodes . . . received atrocious treatment in three mental hospitals. After his recovery Beers decided to devote his life to the betterment of the unfortunates incarcerated in mental hospitals . . . He described the . . . mental anguish he went through while in custodial care in A Mind That Found Itself (1908), a book that affected the social consciousness of the nation and helped promote better care for the mentally ill"--Alexander & Selesnick, page 329. Norman 161.
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