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Excerpt from The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case Histories Together With a Classification of Social Divisions of Evil The writing of this book had been completed, with the exception of a few passages, and the form of it had been planned before Dr. Southard's sudden death from pneumonia in February, 1920. He had said that he would do no more work upon it after February first, for one might continue indefinitely to elaborate a book such as this. We felt that its chief value would lie in the suggestiveness of the ideas presented and not in their completeness. It was not intended that the book should be either a treatise or a text-book, but a record of experience with comment. Such a work might serve several purposes, - to suggest ideas to social workers, to reveal to other professional persons the nature of social work, and to throw light upon the problems of mental hygiene for all persons interested in human life. Mr. Pound has said that "it is a book to quarry in." Among the passages that Dr. Southard had not written were some on medical subjects, which his friend, Dr. Harry C. Solomon, was kind enough to write in accordance with views held by Dr. Southard. The cases were not chosen as examples of successful social work, but were selected because they were believed to be instructive, whether by reason of success or failure. The work of the social service of the Psychopathic Hospital during the period that this book records was the sum of much earnest and thoughtful effort on the part of many workers, assistants, students, and volunteers, to whom I wish that I might make personal acknowledgment at this time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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