Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Law, psychiatry and the problem of disorder -- Governing dangerousness: comparative legal perspectives -- Towards a genealogical approach -- 2 Histories of psychiatry and the asylum -- Psychiatric histories -- Moral treatment -- 'Making up' the mental patient -- 3 The borderland patient -- Reception house -- Refractory ward -- Tools of calculation -- 4 Counting, eugenics, mental hygiene -- Knowledge and government -- The point of arrival: mental hygiene -- 5 The space for personality -- Mental defect, disorder and dangerousness -- Physiology and the reflex arc -- The space for personality -- The space for psychology -- The physiological basis of behaviour -- 6 Surfaces of emergence -- Psychiatry and psychology -- The clinic -- The court clinic -- Psychological and psychiatric practices -- 7 Personality and dangerousness -- Personality and government -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LAW, PSYCHIATRY AND THE PROBLEM OF DISORDER -- 2 HISTORIES OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE ASYLUM -- 3 THE BORDERLAND PATIENT -- 4 COUNTING, EUGENICS, MENTAL HYGIENE -- 5 THE SPACE FOR PERSONALITY -- 6 SURFACES OF EMERGENCE -- 7 PERSONALITY AND DANGEROUSNESS -- Bibliography -- Index.