Frankwood E. Williams (18 May 1883 – 24 September 1936) was an American psychiatrist[1] concerned with the science of human nature.
He also shared the committee's second major goal of helping those patients who were already institutionalized.
His life's work included a study of New York county prisons that indicated high rates of mental illness in the inmate populations, as well as showing that the childhood period was a critical time of life for mental health formation.
He was influenced by the 1929 stock market crash, and the Soviet Union's structure and politics.
[2] Williams was the author of several books: Russia, Youth and the Present Day World (Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. 1934) Social Aspects of Mental Hygiene (Yale University Press, 1925) and the booklet, Reading with a Purpose No.16 Mental Hygiene (Chicago American Library Association, 1929).