SIGNED. The Healthy-Minded Child by Menninger, Karl A., Pratt, George K., Gilbreth, Lillian M., Adler, Herman M., Russell, Bertrand, Jackson, Josephine A., Lowrey, Lawson G., Crawford, Nelson A., Groves, Ernest R., Groves, Gladys H. and Menninger, William C - 1930

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1930. First edition.

1930 SIGNED--GUIDE TO CHILD PSYCHOLOGY BY FOUNDER OF MENNINGER CLINIC--INCLUDES BERTRAND RUSSELL!

13x18.5 cm hardcover, red cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on front free endpaper, "With the compliments of the editors/ Nelson Antrim Crawford/ Karl A. Menninger, M.D." i-viii, 198 pp. Covers clean, binding tight, pages unmarked, jacket lightly soiled with edgewear, very good in very good jacket. FROM FRONT JACKET FLAP: "Children can be brought up by common sense, say the editors of The Healthy Minded Child, but they shouldn't be. They should be brought up with all the aid that modern science can give them. This means that the discoveries of the new psychology should be applied in childhood if one is to avoid the mental ill health which overwhelms millions of adults. This book is intended as a practical guide in the mental hygiene of childhood, showing how to apply the most up-to-date scientific conclusions to the problems of the average parent with average education, average opportunity, and the average number of difficulties in bringing up his children. Included is a chapter by Bertrand Russell: Mental Health and the School, A Teacher's View.

NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD (1888–1963), was an American writer, editor, professor, and publisher. He became the editor of Household magazine of Topeka, Kansas, in 1928, and was the longtime editor of The Author & Journalist published in Topeka.

KARL AUGUSTUS MENNINGER (1893 - 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he graduated cum laude in 1917. Beginning with an internship in Kansas City, Menninger worked at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital and taught at Harvard Medical School. In 1919, he returned to Topeka where, together with his father, he founded the Menninger Clinic. By 1925, they had attracted enough investors to build the Menninger Sanitarium. In 1946 he founded the Menninger School of Psychiatry. During his career, Menninger wrote a number of influential books. In his first book, The Human Mind, Menninger argued that psychiatry was a science and that the mentally ill were only slightly different from healthy individuals. In The Crime of Punishment, Menninger argued that crime was preventable through psychiatric treatment; punishment was a brutal and inefficient relic of the past. He advocated treating offenders like the mentally ill.