Madness in the city of magnificent intentions : a history of race and mental illness in the nation's capital / Martin Summers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Summers, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.).

Mental health services--Washington (D.C.)--History.

Mental health services.

Mental Health Services.

History.

District of Columbia.

Washington (D.C.).

Medical Subjects:

Mental Health Services.

District of Columbia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

1 "Humanity Requires All the Relief Which Can Be Afforded": The Birth of the Federal Asylum p. 13

2 The Paradox of Enlightened Care: Saint Elizabeths in the Era of Moral Treatment, 1855-1877 p. 39

3 "From Slave to Citizen": Race, Insanity and Institutionalization in Post-Reconstruction Washington, DC, 1877-1900 p. 71

4 Care and the Color Line: Race, Rights, and the Therapeutic Experience, 1877-1900 p. 95

5 "Mechanisms of the Negro Mind": Race and Dynamic Psychiatry at Saint Elizabeths, 1903-1937 p. 125

6 "He Is Psychotic and Always Will Be": Racial Ambivalence and the Limits of Therapeutic Optimism, 1903-1937 p. 153

7 Mental Hygiene and the Limits of Reform: Saint Elizabeths in the Community, 1903-1937 p. 190

8 "An Example for the Rest of the Nation": Challenging Racial Injustice at Saint Elizabeths, 1910-1955 p. 217

9 Whither the Negro Psyche: Integration and Its Aftermath, 1945-1970 p. 247

10 From Model to Emblem: Community Mental Health and Deinstitutionalization, 1963-1987 p. 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-376) and index.

ISBN:

9780190852641

019085264X

OCLC:

1105292920