Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
Two Psychologists Who Have just Visited
u. S. Are Shaping Minds of Soviet Masses

| paused for a moment to light their
cigarettes and marched of briskly In
the direction of the clubhouse.
Mental Health Also Cared For.
Not only Is the education of the
masses conducted along. psychological
| lines but their mental health also is
cared for by the Commissar of Public
Health. The development of strong
people, the Soviets believe. can come
only through great care being given
| both the physical and mental sides of
the individual. The Commissar of
Health does not make any division be-
tween physical and mental health,
treating them as allied problems.
chiatric sections and psychiatric coun-
ellis are attached to the Commissariat of
Public Health, as well as to their
regional district ofices. Psychiatric aid
In the treatment and prevention of
mental disease and medico-pedsgogical
treatment of problem children and the
mentally backward are administered in
psychiatric clinics, sanatoriums, dis
pensaries, special colonies, schools for
the psychopathic, the feeble-minded,
the epileptic.
The treatment of mental diseases is
closely allied to their prevention, so that
a iarge number of preventive clinics
have been established In Russia We
also have district mental hygienists ard
mental hygiene clinics In the OUT
patient department of the general hos
pitfalls. The public health, including
mental hygiene, becomes a potent factor
In creating the new legislation In Rus
STA. Mental hygiene experts are asked
to give advice in connection with the
construction OF model Soviet Socialist
towns.
1.-THE mental hygiene clinics carry
out extensive studies with the work.
ers in industry and make out detailed
reports about individual workers, giving
the worker the best opportunity to adj
justment of industry and giving the in
dustry an idea of the individuals spe-
cial abilities and inclinations The
mental hygiene clinics note the early
development Of psycho-neurosis as re-
suit of difficult environment conditions"
In this fashion every effort is being
made to measure the personality Of the
child and the adult in order that he
may be set at work which Is compatible
with his inherited equipment. There
are mental hygiene consultations given
free, the most varied advice offered for
the prevention of nervousness, over
coming alcoholism and making adjust
ment between inadequate or faulty
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ment.
These clinics also extend their work
into the field of crime, where psycfol-
ogy plays an important part There is
special mental psychological service
for the prison population. And their
results so far show tremendous num-
Der of cures of criminals through men
tai hygiene. In child crime there are
no courts for Minors but, instead. social
educational commissions, consisting Of
psychiatrists, teachers and lawyers, who
view cases from the standpoint of the
children's personality and proceed with
the work of making the child a social
being, not through punishment, but by
the careful application of psychological
principles.
! Rosenstein and Salkind explained
these vast works of psychology in mod
ern. Russia with an enthusiasm tenn
pered only by the limitation science puts
upon their dreams They look ahead as
men of science to the outcome of their
gigantic experiment with human ma
ture. And the whole world waits with
them for a flashing view into Russia's
next synthetic generation.