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In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout the 1960s, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing.

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This book is an impressive feat and is filled with revealing connections. Raz provides a model for exactly the kind of multidisciplinary look we need to understand these critical issues. --Barbara Beatty, Wellesley College A fascinating and disturbing study of how psychology created an unflattering and close to insulting picture of the poor. . . . A superb, groundbreaking study. Excellent. Essential. All levels/libraries. -- Choice

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