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Part one. The asylum era: Mausoleums of the mad -- Disposing of degenerates -- Psychobiology -- Freud visits America -- The germ of madness -- Body and mind -- Shocking the brain -- The checkered career of electroconvulsive therapy -- Brain surgery -- Selling psychosurgery -- The end of the affair -- Part two. Disturbed minds: Creating a new psychiatry -- Talk therapy -- War -- Professional transformations -- A fragile hegemony -- Part three. A psychiatric revolution: The birth of psychopharmacology -- Community care -- Diagnosing mental illness -- The complexities of psychopharmacology -- Genetics, neuroscience, and the origins of mental illness -- The crisis of contemporary psychiatry -- Epilogue: Does psychiatry have a future?

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Chapter One: Reflections on the Historical Sociology of Psychiatry; Chapter Two: Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry; Chapter Three: The Domestication of Madness; Chapter Four: Moral Treatment Reconsidered; Chapter Five: The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic

Expert scholars explore the culture of mental illness from the non-clinical perspectives of sociology, history, psychology, epidemiology, economics, public health policy, and finally, the mental health patients themselves. Key themes include cultural comparisons of mental health disorders; cultural sociology of mental illness around the world; economics; epidemiology; mental health practitioners; non-drug treatments; patient, the psychiatry, and psychology; psychiatry and space; psychopharmacology; public policy; social history; and sociology

Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life

This paper examines the changing relationship between psychiatry and three major social sciences, psychology, sociology, and economics, in the period between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the twentieth century. That interaction varied across the different disciplines and over time. The most sustained impact was on the discipline of psychology, where size and the shape of the discipline were radically transformed, beginning with the mental health crisis of the war years. In sociology, the initial cooperation with psychiatry that marked the late 1940s and 1950s was soon transformed into an adversarial relationship, before the two disciplines largely went their separate ways, beginning in the mid-1980s. At about the same time, mental health economics began to emerge as a subspecialty, though, for reasons the article explores, it has remained a marginal enterprise in the eyes of most professional economists.