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This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John
R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental
Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a
British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish
family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army
Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence
as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar
social science. He led an ambitious mental health project in
Canadian schools, and was a founding father of York University.
However, Seeley's struggle with mental illness and Jewish identity
brought him into conflict with the Canadian establishment. His
career ended in academic exile, but his dream of a mental health
revolution still resonates.
This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John
R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental
Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a
British Home Child, estranged from his cosmopolitan German-Jewish
family. Seeley progressed through the ranks of the Canadian Army
Medical Corps, and the University of Chicago, to achieve prominence
as the author of Crestwood Heights, a defining work of postwar
social science. He led an ambitious mental health project in
Canadian schools, and was a founding father of York University.
However, Seeley's struggle with mental illness and Jewish identity
brought him into conflict with the Canadian establishment. His
career ended in academic exile, but his dream of a mental health
revolution still resonates.
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