Psychiatry and the Community in Nineteenth-Century America: The Recurring Concern with Environment in the Prevention and Treatment of Mental Disorder

xx, 360 pp. "...the first full-scale history of psychiatric ideas and practices in nineteenth-century America. ...Relying for the most part on primary sources, Miss Caplan reconstructs the intellectual climate of the era, the conflicts and controversies, and the developmet of ideas, especially in social and community psychiatry, that were in many ways precursors of twentieth-century concepts."