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Beers formed an International Committee for Mental Hygiene in 1919. By 1930, the time of the First International Congress of Mental Hygiene in Washington, D.C., there were mental hygiene societies in 25 countries. In London, at the third international congress in 1948, WFMH was formed. The WFMH provides consultants and shares informal reciprocal functions with several United Nations agencies, including WHO (in which a mental health unit was established in 1949). The federation has convened...

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