psychiatric deluge

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The dominating influence on social work of ideas from psychoanalysis.

Word forms

psychiatric deluge the psychiatric deluge

Etymology

Coined by Kathleen Woodroofe in her book From charity to social work in England and the United States.

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