Includes bibliographical references.

The social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull -- Rationales for therapy in British psychiatry, 1780-1835 / William F. Bynum, Jr. -- Phrenology and British alienists, ca. 1825-1845 / Roger Cooter -- Moral treatment reconsidered, some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry / Andrew Scull -- A generous confidence, Thomas Story Kirkbride's philosophy of asylum construction and management / Nancy J. Tomes -- The discovery of the asylum revisited: lunacy reform in the new American Republic / Andrew Scull -- The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870 / John Walton -- The model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and its influence on the nineteenth-century asylum system in Britain / William Ll. Parry-Jones -- The paradox of prudence: mental health in the gilded age / Barbara Sicherman -- "A hollow square of psychological science": American neurologists and psychiatrists in conflict / Bonnie Ellen Blustein -- The rejection of psychological approaches to mental disorder in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry / Michael J.Clark -- Victorian women and insanity / Elaine Showalter -- Liberty and lunacy: the Victorians and wrongful confinement / Peter McCandless -- The boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England / Roger Smith.