FOREWORD

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. FOREWORD XI
3. CONTENTS XV
4. ILLUSTRATIONS XVIII
5. PART ONE. Introduction: The Close of the Eighteenth Century 1
6. PART TWO. The First Hospital in New York and Its Department of Psychiatry, 1771-1821 27
7. PART THREE. The Founding of Bloomingdale Asylum, 1815—1840 120
8. PART FOUR. A Transition Period, 1840-1852 205
9. PART FIVE. Planning for Classification and Removal—State Supervision and Laws, 1852-1877 261
10. PART SIX. A Medically Directed Private Charity, 1877-1894 308
11. PART SEVEN. The Dawn of Modern Scientific Psychiatry at Bloomingdale, 1894-1911 356
12. PART EIGHT. Fulfillment of Some Long-cherished Aspirations, 1911-1926 402
13. PART NINE. A Complete Organization for Service, Education, and Research, 1926-193 457
14. APPENDICES 503
15. INDEX 549