Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Comparing National Cultures of Psychiatry -- Overviews Psychiatry and Mental Health Care -- 1 Within and Outside the Walls of the Asylum: Caring for the Dutch Mentally Ill, 1884-2000 -- 2 Insanity and Other Discomforts: A Century of Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Netherlands 1900-2000 -- 3 Madness and Autonomy: The Moral Agenda of Anti-psychiatry in the Netherlands -- 4 Psychiatry and the State in Britain -- 5 The Transformation of Mental Health Policy in Twentieth-Century America -- 6 Continuities or Ruptures? Concepts, Institutions and Contexts of Twentieth-Century German Psychiatry and Mental Health Care -- 7 Care and Control in a Communist State: The Place of Politics in East German Psychiatry -- 8 Between the National Socialist 'Euthanasia Programme' and Reform: Asylum Psychiatry in West Germany, 1940-1975 -- 9 'Misery' and 'Revolution': The Organisation of French Psychiatry, 1900-1980 -- 10 Outpatient Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century: International Perspectives -- Psychiatric Patients -- 11 Out and In: The Family and the Asylum. Patterns of Admission and Discharge in Three Dutch Psychiatric Hospitals 1890-1950 -- 12 Were Asylums Men's Places? Male Excess in the Asylum Population in Japan in the Early Twentieth Century -- 13 Madness in the Home: Family Care and Welfare Policies in Italy before Fascism -- Psychiatric Nursing -- 14 Changing Attitudes towards 'Non-Restraint' in Dutch Psychiatric Nursing, 1897-1994 -- 15 Nurses in Swedish Psychiatric Care -- Psychotropic Drugs -- 16 Mental Ills and the 'Hidden History' of Drug Treatment Practices -- Reflections -- 17 From Exploration to Synthesis: Making New Sense of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century.

18 Progress, Patients, Professionals and the Psyche. Comments on Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century -- Index -- About the Contributors.