Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1436 - The Book of Margery Kempe
1677, 1678 - The Diary of Christoph Haizmann
1714 - The Life of the Reverend Mr. George Trosse: Written by Himself, and Published Posthumously According to His Order in 1714
1739 - The London-Citizen Exceedingly Injured; Or, A British Inquisition Display'd, in an Account of the Unparallel'd Case of a Citizen of London, Bookseller to the Late Queen, Who Was in a Most Unjust and Arbitrary Manner Sent on the 23rd of March Last,
1774 - One More Proff of the Iniquitous Abuse of Private Madhouses, by Samuel Bruckshaw
1816 - Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq.
1818 - The Interior of Bethlehem Hospital, by Urbane Metcalf
1838 and 1840 - A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement; Designed to Explain the Causes and the Nature of Insanity, and to Expose the Injudicious Conduct Pursued Towards Many Unfortunate Sufferers Unde
1849 - Five Months in the New-York State Lunatic Asylum, Anonymous
1868 - The Prisoner's Hidden Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled: As Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois. Together with Mrs. Packard's Coadjutors' Testimony, by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
1869 - The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, and His Acquittal Before Judge Brewster in November, 1868, together with a Brief Sketch of the Mode of Treatment of Lunatics in Different Asylums in this Country and in England, with Illustrations, Includin
1903 - Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, by Daniel Paul Schreber
1908 - A Mind That Found Itself, by Clifford Beers
1909 - The Maniac: A Realistic Study of Madness from the Maniac's Point of View, by E. Thelmar
1910 - Legally Dead, Experiences During Seventeen Weeks; Detention in a Private Asylum, by Marcia Hamilcar
1918, 1919 - The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
1938 - The Witnesses, by Thomas Hennell
1944 - Brainstorm, by Carlton Brown
1945 - I Question, Anonymous
1946 - The Snake Pit, by Mary Jane Ward
1952 - Wisdom Madness and Folly, by John Custance
1955 - Voices Calling, by Lisa Wiley
1964 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg
1965 - Beyond All Reason, by Morag Coate
1975 - The Eden Express, by Mark Vonnegut
1976 - Insanity Inside Out, by Kenneth Donaldson
Epilogue
Appendix I: Ancient and Medieval Visions of Madness
Appendix II: Contemporary Models of Madness
Bibliography