Beers, Clifford W., — A Mind That Found Itself: an autobiography.

NY, Doubleday, (1960). Revised. VG in G DJ. First significant and important volume on insanity and mental hygiene to be published for the layman. Beers' harrowing tale. of his stay as a patient in various mental institutions and the frequently brutal and inhuman treatment he sufferedin the hospitals thata professed to aid the mentally ill. Afterwards Beers devoted his life to the improvement of institutional care of the insane. DJ edge wear.