To understand how mental health services in schools became the latest partisan flashpoint, we go back to the 1950’s. That’s when a movement of conservative women took on the emerging field of mental health as part of their larger crusade against the spread of communism. In the 50’s and 60’s, these activists waged fierce battles to resist the menace of the mental health profession and “progressive education,” any effort to influence the thinking of American school children. Special guest: Michelle Nickerson, authors of Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right.

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