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?