Mental Health Was Important to E. Stanley Jones
The E. Stanley Jones Foundation is a non-profit organization, exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, founded in 2001. Dr. Anne Mathews-Younes is President.
The emotional struggles students face are greatly influenced by complex social determinants and root causes that contribute to mental health concerns and wellbeing, and call out the need for a holistic and comprehensive organizational approach to emotional intelligence.
Through The Way Consulting Int’l. the E. Stanley Jones Foundation encourages and advances holistic wellness with consulting services, needs assessment, and programs that address emotional health, mental health literacy, to meet mental health needs. We believe that healthy organizations can be empowered for good through well-defined policies and programs that foster a positive environment for wholeness and wellbeing.
The Way Consulting Intl. has assembled an interdisciplinary team and network of internationally experienced, extraordinarily qualified professionals in mental health who share a vision for student wellbeing and wellness.
Dr. E. Stanley Jones experienced stress and mental suffering in the course of his work as a global missionary. In the 1940s, Dr. E. Stanley Jones took up the cause of persons with mental illness and their families. Dr. Jones met frequently with Dr. Karl Menninger, the world-famous Psychoanalyst, who agreed to help Jones establish a psychiatric center in India. His dream became reality when in 1945, Dr. Dagmar Norell, a Swedish Psychiatrist at the Menninger Institute, agreed to start a Center for psychiatric services in Lucknow. The Nur Manzil (Palace of Light) Psychiatric Center officially opened on December 13, 1950.
Over the years, the Center has evolved to provide quality mental health care to persons from all over the Indian subcontinent. Embracing changes and developments in psychiatry, Nur Manzil has been a learning and working environment for renowned mental health professionals from the world over to practice their art. The Center has been a source of effective treatment and healing to patients and their caregivers alike. Dr. Jones believed firmly that treatment of mental and behavioral illnesses is best done through bio-psychosocial and spiritual holistic strength-based approaches to psychiatric care.
Today, Nur Manzil continues to pioneer in the field of psychiatry as a charitable institution offering its unique services to the society at large without any discrimination because of religion, gender, social or economic status. Nur Manzil owes its existence to the foresight of Dr. E. Stanley Jones who believed in creating a Psychiatric Center to offer the full benefits of modern psychiatry in an environment in which the individual care and concern for the human being as a whole would prevail.
He emphasized that the care of the mind alone would not be enough to reach full health. Attention is focused on Psychological, Social and Spiritual needs for a holistic approach to health. Many distinguished psychiatrists from Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A., Britain and Australia have contributed greatly to the development of Nur Manzil, which is now under the full-time leadership of Indian physicians and a range of mental health professionals.
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