Table of Contents

Table of Contents - 6[-]Acknowledgements - 8[-]Introduction: Comparing National Cultures of Psychiatry - 10[-]Overviews Psychiatry and Mental Health Care - 34[-] 1 Within and Outside the Walls of the Asylum: Caring for the Dutch Mentally Ill, 1884-2000 - 36[-] 2 Insanity and Other Discomforts: A Century of Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Netherlands 1900-2000 - 74[-] 3 Madness and Autonomy: The Moral Agenda of Anti-psychiatry in the Netherlands - 104[-] 4 Psychiatry and the State in Britain - 117[-] 5 The Transformation of Mental Health Policy in Twentieth-Century America - 142[-] 6 Continuities or Ruptures? Concepts, Institutions and Contexts of Twentieth-Century German Psychiatry and Mental Health Care - 163[-] 7 Care and Control in a Communist State: The Place of Politics in East German Psychiatry - 184[-] 8 Between the National Socialist 'Euthanasia Programme' and Reform: Asylum Psychiatry in West Germany, 1940-1975 - 201[-] 9 'Misery' and 'Revolution': The Organisation of French Psychiatry, 1900-1980 - 226[-] 10 Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century: International Perspectives - 249[-]Psychiatric Patients - 276[-] 11 Out and In: The Family and the Asylum. Patterns of Admission and Discharge in Three Dutch Psychiatric Hospitals 1890-1950 - 278[-] 12 Were Asylums Men's Places? Male Excess in the Asylum Population in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century - 296[-] 13 Madness in the Home: Family Care and Welfare Policies in Italy before Fascism - 313[-]Psychiatric Nursing - 330[-] 14 Changing Attitudes towards 'Non-Restraint' in Dutch Psychiatric Nursing, 1897-1994 - 332[-] 15 Nurses in Swedish Psychiatric Care - 360[-]Psychotropic Drugs - 380[-] 16 Mental Ills and the 'Hidden History' of Drug Treatment Practices - 382[-]Reflections - 404[-] 17 From Exploration to Synthesis: Making New Sense of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century - 406[-] 18 Progress, Patients, Professionals and the Psyche. Comments on Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century - 425[-]Index - 443[-]About the Contributors - 439

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