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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- I The Mentally Ill in Colonial America -- II. Philanthropy and Hospitals -- III. The Growth of Public Mental Hospitals -- IV. American Psychiatry: Origins of a Profession -- V. The Mental Hospital, 1830-1875: Dilemmas of Growth -- VI. Class, Ethnicity, and Race in Mental Hospitals -- VII. Centralization and Rationalization: The Evolution of Public Policy, 1850-1875 -- VIII. The Search for Alternatives -- Appendix I. The Founding of State Mental Hospitals to 1894 -- Appendix II. Average Annual Admissions to the American Mental Hospital, 1820-1870 -- Appendix III. Average Total Number of Patients Treated in the American Mental Hospital, 1820-1870 -- Apppendix IV. Selected Statistics for American Mental Hospitals, 1820-1875, at Five Year Intervals (Admissions, Total Number of Patients, Average Patient Population, Recoveries, Deaths) -- Bibliography -- Index

1. Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid : Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c1939-1948 -- 2. The "disordered" state : government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973 -- 3. Patient accounts : life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961 -- 4. Heinous crimes : community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990 -- 5. Controlling and challenging sexuality : psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s -- 6. "Monopoly on madness?" : private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989 -- 7. Critics of the system? : the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa.

"In the mid- to late 1940s, a group of young men rattled the psychiatric establishment by beaming a public spotlight on the squalid conditions and brutality in our nation⁰́₉s mental hospitals and training schools for people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities

"The Crusade for Forgotten Souls recounts Minnesota's reform movement that broke the stigma surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state's asylums, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system. Susan Bartlett Foote tells the story of the early advocates for compassionate care of the mentally ill who made the crusade a success"--Provided by publisher

In 1881 the Wisconsin State Legislature enacted a dual system of state & county care for the mentally ill, by which the acutely insane were placed in large state hospitals, while the chronic mentally ill were sent to smaller county institutions, designed to provide "warm" long-term care & easier access for family members & friends. To determine whether this was actually the case, records for all 480 patients of the Outagamie County Asylum for the Chronic Insane between 1890 & the early 1930s were examined. The findings suggest that the county system worked reasonably well, or at least did what it was designed to do. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 9 References. Adapted from the source document.

Wisconsin adopted a dual system of care: the acute insane were placed in large state hospitals while the chronic insane were sent to smaller county institutions. A detailed analysis of a county asylum during the first 43 years of its existence suggests that, with some exceptions, the system worked well--or at least did what it was designed to do. (Abstract amended)