Front Cover; Ministering to Minds Diseased: A History of Psychiatric Treatment; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; Part I: Somatic Treatments; CHAPTER 2. The Early Physical Treatments; Sleep treatment; Hydrotherapy; Bloodletting and blood transfusion; Shock treatment; Electrical treatment; CHAPTER 3. Epilepsy and its Treatment; CHAPTER 4. The Later Physical Treatments; Fever therapy; Insulin treatment; Convulsion treatment; Electroconvulsive therapy; Surgery; CHAPTER 5. Medicinal Treatment; The herbals and the herbalists; The narcotics.

Chemistry and the development of psychopharmacologyThe neuroleptic drugs; The antidepressant drugs; The anxiolytic drugs; Lithium treatment; Vitamin treatment; Hormone treatment; Part II: The Psychotherapies; CHAPTER 6. The Beginnings; Mesmerism; Hypnotism; Psychoanalysis; Analytical psychology; Individual psychology; CHAPTER 7. The Expansion of Psychotherapy; The later history o f psychoanalysis; Psychotherapy progresses; Psychotherapy in the Second World War; The therapeutic community; Action techniques in psychotherapy; Meditation; Music therapy; CHAPTER 8. Behaviour Therapy.

Part Ill: Environmental and Social TreatmentCHAPTER 9. The Evolution of the Mental Hospital; The early hospitals; The madhouses; The hospitals in the eighteenth century; Abuses and reforms in the eighteenth century; Conditions in nineteenth-century hospitals; Restraint and non-restraint; The retreat into custodialism; CHAPTER 10. The Development of a Mental Health Service; The advance is resumed; Work therapy; Treatment in the community; Mental nursing; CHAPTER 11. Conclusions; Biographical and Historical Notes; Bibliography; Index.