Table of Contents
Preface xv
Part 1
1 Mirror Image 3
2 Nellie Bly 12
3 The Seat of Madness 22
4 On Being Sane in Insane Places 33
5 A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma 42
Part 2
6 The Essence of David 53
7 "Go Slowly, and Perhaps Not at All" 63
8 "I Might Not Be Unmasked" 75
9 Committed 83
10 Nine Days Inside a Madhouse 86
Part 3
11 Getting In 111
12 … And Only the Insane Knew Who Was Sane 122
13 W. Underwood 131
14 Crazy Eights 135
15 Ward 11 148
16 Soul on Ice 156
17 Rosemary Kennedy 162
Part 4
18 The Truth Seeker 173
19 "All Other Questions Follow from That" 182
20 Criterionating 192
21 The SCID 199
Part 5
22 The Footnote 213
23 "It's All in Your Mind" 230
24 Shadow Mental Health Care System 236
25 The Hammer 247
26 An Epidemic 265
27 Moons of Jupiter 279
Epilogue 295
Acknowledgments 301
Reading Group Guide 307
Notes 315
Index 375
Permissions 389