Memorandum on social insurance and allied services in their bearing on neurotic disorder / (By authority of the Council of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association)
1943 1943 1940s 19 pages MEMORANDUM ON SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES IN THEIR BEARING ON NEUROTIC DISORDER.* TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. INTRODUCTION ... 1 PSYCHIATRIC CONSIDERATIONS ... 2 (1) Unemployment and poverty. (2) The unemployable. (3) Old age. (4) Malingering. COMMENTS ON THE...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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1943
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MEMORANDUM ON SOCIAL INSURANCE AND ALLIED SERVICES IN THEIR BEARING ON NEUROTIC DISORDER.* TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. INTRODUCTION ... 1 PSYCHIATRIC CONSIDERATIONS ... 2 (1) Unemployment and poverty. (2) The unemployable. (3) Old age. (4) Malingering. COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSALS ... 4 (1) Guiding principles : (a) Security against want. (b) Concern for the individual. (c) Work. (d) Other general principles. (e) Social objectives. (2) Benefit rates: ... 8 (a) Flat rate of benefit. (b) Minimum wages. (c) Rent. (d) Period of qualifying disability. (e) Employers' liability for negligence. (f) Partial disability and training benefit, (g) Permanent disability. (h) War pensions. (j) Old age. (k) Disciplinary problems and national assistance (m) Universal entitlement. (3) Contributory payments : Cost ... 11 (4) Care of injured workmen : ... 12 (a) Causes of "compensation neurosis." (b) Lump sum payments. (c) Employers' payments. (d) Tribunals. ADMINISTRATIVE MEASURES 14 MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS 16 INTRODUCTION. THE proposals on social insurance put forward in the Beveridge Report raise issues which bear closely on the causes, prevention and treatment of neurotic ill-health ; "compensation neurosis" is a striking instance of the relevance of social security measures to mental health. In the following memorandum relevant points in the Report are critically examined from a psychiatric standpoint, and some modifications suggested. It is not easy to separate those things which will further the general happiness and well-being of the population from those which will further its mental health, narrowly regarded. So far as possible only those matters are here selected for consideration on which the psychiatrist may claim some right to be heard. When actual * By authority of the Council of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association. I
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