Chapter One: CONFRONTING MADNESS
Chapter Two: MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Madness and the Israelites
The Hellenic World
Greek and Roman Physick
Greece and Rome and Imperial China: Worlds Compared
East and West
Chapter Three: THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN
Successor States
Islam and Madness
Early Hospitals
Demonic Possession and Spiritual Healing
Christian Europe
Saints and Miracles
Literature and Madness
Medicine and Madness
Chapter Four: MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE
Fairies, Ghosts, Goblins and Witches
Melancholie Madnesse
Drawing Boundaries
Dramatic Possibilities
Madness in Its Infinite Variety
Fictions and Fables
Madness and Art
Fools and Folly
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Puzzles and Complexities
Chapter Five: MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS
Changing Responses to Madness
Representations of Madness
Shutting People Up
Novel Predicaments
Disciplining the Unruly
Kindness and Humanity?
Chapter Six: NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS
Owning a Disease
Disordered Nerves
Enthusiasm and Spiritual Agony
Exorcizing Demons
Invisible Forces
Chapter Seven: THE GREAT CONFINEMENT
Nervous or Mad?
The Rise of the Empire of Asylumdom
Imperial Psychiatry
Moral Treatment
From Madness to Mental Illness
Lumps and Bumps, or Mental Cures for Bodily Afflictions
Madness and the Morgue
Responsible Guardians
Chapter Eight: DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR
The Disorders of Civilized Existence
Waning Confidence
Shutting Up the Mad: Pictorial and Literary Protests
Gothic Tales
Degenerates
Artistic Licence
Dealing with the Depraved
The Roots of Madness
Chapter Nine: THE DEMI-FOUS
Avoiding the Asylum
The Borderlands of Insanity
Hysteria on the Stage
Freud and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Repression
Chapter Ten: DESPERATE REMEDIES
The Trials of Total War
Shell Shock
Fever
A Crisis of Legitimacy
The Germ of Madness
Shock Therapy
Targeting Brains
Backlash
Chapter Eleven: A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE
The Search for Meaning
The Psychoanalytic Movement
Freud and the Americans
Into Exile
Total War and Its Consequences
Psychoanalysis, American Style
Pathological Mommies
Freudian Hegemony
Madness and the Movies
Chapter Twelve: A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION?
The End of Asylumdom
A Technological Fix?
Doomed Institutions
The Fate of Those with Chronic Mental Illness
The Drugs Revolution
The Re-Constitution of Psychiatry
Biology Bites Back
Epilogue.
Chapter Two: MADNESS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Madness and the Israelites
The Hellenic World
Greek and Roman Physick
Greece and Rome and Imperial China: Worlds Compared
East and West
Chapter Three: THE DARKNESS AND THE DAWN
Successor States
Islam and Madness
Early Hospitals
Demonic Possession and Spiritual Healing
Christian Europe
Saints and Miracles
Literature and Madness
Medicine and Madness
Chapter Four: MELANCHOLIE AND MADNESSE
Fairies, Ghosts, Goblins and Witches
Melancholie Madnesse
Drawing Boundaries
Dramatic Possibilities
Madness in Its Infinite Variety
Fictions and Fables
Madness and Art
Fools and Folly
Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Puzzles and Complexities
Chapter Five: MADHOUSES AND MAD-DOCTORS
Changing Responses to Madness
Representations of Madness
Shutting People Up
Novel Predicaments
Disciplining the Unruly
Kindness and Humanity?
Chapter Six: NERVES AND NERVOUSNESS
Owning a Disease
Disordered Nerves
Enthusiasm and Spiritual Agony
Exorcizing Demons
Invisible Forces
Chapter Seven: THE GREAT CONFINEMENT
Nervous or Mad?
The Rise of the Empire of Asylumdom
Imperial Psychiatry
Moral Treatment
From Madness to Mental Illness
Lumps and Bumps, or Mental Cures for Bodily Afflictions
Madness and the Morgue
Responsible Guardians
Chapter Eight: DEGENERATION AND DESPAIR
The Disorders of Civilized Existence
Waning Confidence
Shutting Up the Mad: Pictorial and Literary Protests
Gothic Tales
Degenerates
Artistic Licence
Dealing with the Depraved
The Roots of Madness
Chapter Nine: THE DEMI-FOUS
Avoiding the Asylum
The Borderlands of Insanity
Hysteria on the Stage
Freud and the Birth of Psychoanalysis
Repression
Chapter Ten: DESPERATE REMEDIES
The Trials of Total War
Shell Shock
Fever
A Crisis of Legitimacy
The Germ of Madness
Shock Therapy
Targeting Brains
Backlash
Chapter Eleven: A MEANINGFUL INTERLUDE
The Search for Meaning
The Psychoanalytic Movement
Freud and the Americans
Into Exile
Total War and Its Consequences
Psychoanalysis, American Style
Pathological Mommies
Freudian Hegemony
Madness and the Movies
Chapter Twelve: A PSYCHIATRIC REVOLUTION?
The End of Asylumdom
A Technological Fix?
Doomed Institutions
The Fate of Those with Chronic Mental Illness
The Drugs Revolution
The Re-Constitution of Psychiatry
Biology Bites Back
Epilogue.