An Environmental Approach to Mental Health

Cobb, Sidney; French, John R. P.; Kahn, Robert L.; Mann, Floyd C.

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1963.tb13304.x

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“…Robert Kahn was supported by NIMH funds for studies on conflict and ambiguity in relation to mental health, an effort that helped to inaugurate the concept of organizational stress (Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snock, & Rosenthal, 1964). NIMH funds supported John R. P. French for his work on mental health in industry and for research on the effect of organizational environments on mental health (e.g., Cobb, French, & Mann, 1963).…”

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The Research Grants Program of the National Institute of Mental Health and the Golden Age of American Academic Psychology.

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Psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health: A Historical Analysis of Science, Practice, and Policy.

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To speak of a golden age in an historical account is to make reference to a time of great abundance of resources and great promise. The years following World War II (WWII) may have been such an era for American universities (Freeland, 1992), especially those with aspirations to become centers of research and scholarship. Research activity, particularly in the physical sciences and engineering, but also in the social sciences, requires financial resources; the federal government, continuing a pattern of research funding begun during the war, provided such needed financial support (Geiger, 1993). The growth of American psychology after the war was explosive as it expanded to become a service profession as well as an active and well-funded research discipline. Although it did not require the costly capital investment of the physical sciences and engineering, psychology was fortunate to have several federal research sponsors. One of these was the newly formed National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The contributions 61

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