Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers

Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876 1943) was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. Beers was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Ida and Robert Beers on March 30, 1876. He was one of five children, all of whom would suffer from psychological distress and would die in mental institutions, including Beers himself (see "Clifford W. Beers, Advocate for the Insane"). He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1897.

Clifford Whittingham Beers's Books:

[A Mind That Found Itself]