Aids to Mental Health
The benefits of Occupation, Recreation and Amusement.
- Author:
Richard Eager, O.B.E., M.D., late
Medical Superintendent, Devon Mental Hospital. Published by W. V. Cole and Sons, 87 and 88 South Street, Exeter. Price, post free, 6?d. each, 6/- per dozen.
This little pamphlet consists of the material presented by the writer in addresses given to the Mental Hospitals Association in 1934 and to the Public Health Congress in 1936.
It embodies Dr Eager’s personal experience of Occupation Therapy which he introduced into his own Hospital so effectively that as many as 75 per cent, of the patients are now occupied in some way or other. The various types of occupation are described, with the methods used in organising the scheme, and there are also sections on physical drill and on recreations of various kinds.
Not only for its practical value to those most intimately concerned but because it gives a glimpse of the ideals and work of a modern Mental Hospital which to the uninstructed reader should come as something of a revelation, do we welcome this pamphlet and hope that it will be widely read. A.L.H.
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