PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. TABLES viii
4. PREFACE ix
5. ABBREVIATIONS xiv
6. PROLOGUE 3
7. ONE. The Mental Hospital 7
8. TWO. American Psychiatry: A Specialty Adrift 30
9. THREE. The Transformation of Psychiatry 46
10. FOUR. The Search for Public Policy 72
11. FIVE. The Quest for Psychiatric Authority 108
12. SIX. The Mental Hygiene Movement 144
13. SEVEN. The Invisible Patient 179
14. EIGHT. Dilemmas of Control: Accountability versus Autonomy 201
15. NINE. The Emergence of the Mental Health Professions 234
16. TEN. The Psychiatric Response 266
17. ELEVEN. Mental Hospitals and Psychiatry Between the Wars 288
18. EPILOGUE 317
19. NOTES 323
20. NOTE ON SOURCES 397
21. INDEX 415