From the Book - 2d ed., rev. and enl.
Introduction / William A. White
Introduction to the second edition / Robert H. Felix
Prophets, demons and witches
Colonial America : the Old World heritage
Colonial provision for the mentally ill : punishment, repression and indifference
Rational humanitarianism : the beginnings of reform
Benjamin Rush : the father of American psychiatry
The rise of moral treatment
Retrogression : over the hill to the poorhouse
The cult of curability and the rise of state institutions
Dorothea Lynde Dix : militant crusader
Mid-century psychiatrists
Conflict of theories : restraint or non-restraint?
The trend toward state care
State care : exodus from the poorhouse
Psychiatry emerges from isolation
The mental hygiene movement and its founder
Historical backgrounds of mental defect
Changing concepts in mental defect
Insanity and the criminal law
Modern trends in institutional care and treatment
Psychiatry in World War II
