Overview
The Turning Point is the first comprehensive chronicle of the contributions made by conscientious objectors who volunteered for service in America's mental hospitals and state institutions for the developmentally disabled during Word War II. It brings together excerpts from Life, Reader's Digest, and The Cleveland Press, as well as letters and personal reminiscences that recall the shock and distress of conscientious objectors at the conditions in state mental hospitals.
Full Product Details
Author: Alex Sareyan
Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Imprint: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
Edition: annotated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.612kg
ISBN: 9780880485609
ISBN 10: 0880485604
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 30 November 1993
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Out of stock
Reviews
[A] fitting 50-year celebration of what was perhaps the most significant and most enduring of all the alternative service programs developed in World War II as 'work of national importance. Mennonite Quarterly Review This is the first book to chronicle the experiences of conscientious objectors assigned to duty in mental health hospitals of this country... The result is an involving, revealing portrait. The Midwest Book Review
This is a haunting account of the choices we, as American people, have made in this particular area of our historical evolution in this country. It pays long overdue service to the historical acount of WWII management of conscientious objectors, and it pays tribute to those conscientious objectors who have had the courage to serve their country in other ways, according to their convictions. * Doody's Journal * Many of the concepts of mental illness that we take for granted today began with the crusade spearheaded by the conscientious objectors and their wives. They have the right to be proud of their legacy as agents for social change. * The New England Journal of Medicine * [A] fitting 50-year celebration of what was perhaps the most significant and most enduring of all the alternative service programs developed in World War II as 'work of national importance. * Mennonite Quarterly Review * This is the first book to chronicle the experiences of conscientious objectors assigned to duty in mental health hospitals of this country.... The result is an involving, revealing portrait. * The Midwest Book Review *
<p> This is the first book to chronicle the experiences of conscientious objectors assigned to duty in mental health hospitals of this country.... The result is an involving, revealing portrait. -- The Midwest Book Review
[A] fitting 50-year celebration of what was perhaps the most significant and most enduring of all the alternative service programs developed in World War II as 'work of national importance. - Mennonite Quarterly Review
Author Information
Alex Sareyan attended the University of Pennsylvania�s Wharton School, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree. During World War II he was a conscientious objector and served as the assistant director of the unit and also worked part-time as an attendant on the wards at Connecticut State Hospital at Middletown. He is now the President of the Mental Health Materials Center.
