Table of Contents

1. The Politics of Mental Welfare: Fresh Perspectives on the History of Institutionalized Care for the Mentally Ill and Disabled 2. Workhouse Care of the Insane 1845-1890 3. Needs and Desires in the Care of Paper Lunatics: Admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852-1872 4. 'Buried Alive by her Friends' Asylum Narratives and the English Governess, 1845-1914 5. Separatism and Exclusion: Women in Psychiatry 1900-1950 6. Family, Gender and Class in Psychiatric Patient Care during the 1930s: The Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital 7. The 'Manufacture' of Mental Defectives Increased in Scotland (1857-1939) 8. Tension in the Voluntary-Statutory Alliance: 'Lay Professionals' and the Planning and Delivery of Mental Deficiency Services, 1917-1945 9.'A Satisfactory Job Is the Best Psychiatrist' Employment and Mental Health 1939- 60 10. Inside the Walls of the Hostel 1930-1974 11. Landmarks in the Care of the Mentally Disordered