Quotes

Albee: “Every thing aimed at improving human condition of making life more fulfilling and meaningful may be considered part of the primary prevention of mental and emotional disturbance.”   D.V. Hawks: prevention is desirable, but is it possible? Publication of the Division of Mental Health. World Health Organization.pp2-12. 1978 

Albee: It is increasingly recognized that reactive disorders, drug addiction, alcoholism, sexual  deviations and anti-social behaviours, reflect the life style of  populations, and that changes in these circumstances are probably as important as any things else in significantly reducing their prevalence. If professional psychologists were truly concerned with human welfare, we would forget psychiatric patients