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As Chynoweth states, a witnessing of these histories is an important step in identifying the responsibility of past (and recent) leadership at the national level. Chynoweth has also included "witnesses" to this past. The girls in this history are survivors, and are described as such by Chynoweth. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Strategies of Mental Hospital Change," by James Dykens.

Reviews the book "The Sharing of Power in a Psychiatric Hospital," by Robert Robenstein and Harold D. Lasswell.

Presents the book 'The Psychiatric Unit in a General Hospital,' edited by M. Ralph Kaufman.

The article reviews the book "Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital," by Ivan Belknap.

Edited by Frank Yeomans and Kenneth Levy Elsevier. The preface alone is helpful, but a highlight for me was the introduction by Otto Kernberg, who argues for a truly biopsychosocial approach to understanding all disorders of personality, not just borderline personality disorder. Such books are valuable because there are still mental health professionals out there (including psychiatrists, I'm sad to say) who claim that personality disorders either (a) do not exist as disorders but are just "stigmatising labels" or (b) are disorders but not the kind that mental health services should help. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital," by Alex Beam.

The article reviews the book "'Up By'--A History of Rosslynlee Hospital," by R.J. Craig.

The article presents a review of the book "Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture," by Benjamin Reiss.

The article reviews the book "Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture," by Benjamin Reiss.

The article reviews the book "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States," by Carla Yanni, part of the series Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture.

Reviews the book "Matti, indemoniate e vagabondi: Dinamiche di internamento manicomiale tra Otto e Novecento," by Vinzia Fiorino.

Reviews the book "Imperial Bedlam. Institutions of Madness in Colonial Southwest Nigeria," by Jonathan Sadowsky.

The article reviews the book "The Best Specimen of a Tyrant: The Ambitious Dr. Abraham Van Norstrand and the Wisconsin Insane Hospital," by Thomas Doherty.

Reviews the book "Mental Illness and Due Process: Report and Recommendations on Admission to Mental Hospitals Under New York Law."

Reviews the book "The Psychiatric Hospital as a Small Society," by William Caudill.

Reviews the book "The Patient and the Mental Hospital," edited by Milton Greenblatt, Daniel J. Levinson and Richard H. Williams.

The article reviews the book "The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly," by Dennis O'Donnell.

The article presents a review of the book "Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture," by Benjamin Reiss.

Reviews the book "The Psychiatric Hospital: Context, Values, and Therapeutic Process," by Henry L. Lennard.

The article reviews the book "The Psychiatric Hospital and the Family," by Henry T. Harbin.

Reviews the book "The Culture of the State Mental Hospital," by H. Warren Dunham and S. Kirson Weinberg.

Reviews the book "Dr. Kirkbride and His Mental Hospital," by E.D. Bond.