Table of Contents

Volume 1: People and Ideas 1. M. A. Screech. Good Madness in Christendom 2. Theodore M. Brown. Descartes, dualism, and psychosomatic medicine 3. Roy Porter. 'The Hunger of Imagination' : approaching Samuel Johnson's melancholy 4. W. F. Bynum. The nervous patient in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: the psychiatric origins of British neurology 5. Andrew Scull. A Victorian alienist: John Conolly 6. Janet Browne. Darwin and the face of madness 7. G. E. Berrios. Obsessional disorders during the nineteenth century: terminological and classificatory issues 8. Ian Dowbiggin. Degeneration and hereditarianism in French mental medicine 9. J. P. Williams. Psychical research and psychiatry in late Victorian Britain: trance as esctasy or trance as insanity 10. John Forrester. Contracting the disease of love: authority and freeedom in the origins of psychoanalysis 11. Anthony Clare. Freud's cases: the clinical basis of psychoanalysis 12. W. F. Bynum and Michael Neve. Hamlet on the couch Volume 2: Institutions and Society 1. Patricia Allderidge. Bedlam: fact or fantasy? 2. Joel Peter Eigen. Intentionality and insanity: what the eighteenth-century juror heard 3. Anne Digby. Moral treatment at the Retreat, 1796-1846 4. Fiona Godlee. Aspects of non-conformity: Quakers and the lunatic fringe 5. Roger Qvarsell. Locked up or put to bed: psychiatry and the treatment of the mentally ill in Sweden, 1800-1920 6. N. Hervey. A slavish bowing down: the Lunacy Commission and the psychiatric profession 1845-60 7. J. K. Walton. Casting out and bringing back in Victorian England; pauper lunatics, 1840-70 8. Charlotte Mackenzie. Social factors in the admission, discharge, and continuing stay of patients at Ticehurst Asylum, 1845-1917 9. Annamaria Tagliavini. Aspects of the history of psychiatry in Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century 10. Ruth Harris. Murder under hypnosis in the case of Gabrielle Bompard: psychiatry in the courtroom in Belle Epoque Paris 11. Martin Stone. Shellshock and the psychologists Volume III: The Asylum and its Psychiatry 1. Christine Stevenson. Madness and the picturesque in the Kingdom of Denmark 2. Waltraud Ernst. Asylums in alien places: the treatment of the European insane in British India 3. Michael J. Clark. 'Morbid introspection', unsoundness of mind, and British psychological medicine 4. Patricia Guarnieri. Between soma and psyche: Morselli and psychiatry in late-nineteenth-century Italy 5. Jamed G. Donat. Medicine and religion: on the physical and mental disorders that accompanied the Ulster Revival of 1859 6. Trevor Turner. Henry Maudsley: psychiatrist, philosopher, and entrepreneur 7. Nancy Tomes

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