Introduction 1 Bedlam: fact or fantasy? 2 Intentionality and insanity: what the eighteenth-century juror heard 3 Moral treatment at the Retreat, 1796-1846 4 Aspects of non-conformity: Quakers and the lunatic fringe 5 Locked up or put to bed: psychiatry and the treatment of the mentally ill in Sweden, 1800- 1920 6 A slavish bowing down: the Lunacy Commission and the psychiatric profession 1845-60 7 Casting out and bringing back in Victorian England: pauper lunatics, 1840-70 8 Social factors in the admission, discharge, and continuing stay of patients at Ticehurst Asylum, 1845- 1917, 9 Aspects of the history of psychiatry in Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century 10 Murder under hypnosis in the case of Gabrielle Bompard: psychiatry in the courtroom in Belle Epoque Paris 11 Shellshock and the psychologists
