Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Harry Oosterhuis, Joost Vijselaar, and Hugh Freeman (Eds.) Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. 456 pp. $50 (paper). ISBN 90-5356-799-0

The article reviews the book "Psychiatric Cultures Compared: Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in the Twentieth Century," edited by Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra, Harry Oosterhuis, Joost Vijselaar and Hugh Freeman.