ATHG-Lers:  I can't resist forwarding the following to ATHG-L.  Hope
it's as interesting/useful to others as I found it!   Ron Roizen
 
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 20:19:38 -0500 (EST)
From: James Cassidy <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Bibliography on mental illness in early America (fwd)
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I forward the following from H-Net's H-SHAPE list
 
James Cassidy
History Department
Saint Anselm College
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Subj:   Bibliography on Early American Mental Illness (x IEAHCNET)
 
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:38:57 -0500 (EST)
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Here are some titles that may be helpful on the subject of
mental illness.
 
Ross W. Beales, Jr.
College of the Holy Cross
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 Bernhard, Virginia.  "Cotton Mather's 'Most Unhappy wife':
Reflections on the Uses of Historical Evidence." New England
Quarterly 60:3 (1987): 341-62.
 
 Brandwein, Ann.  "An Eighteenth-Century Depression: The Sad
Conclusion of Faith Trumbull Huntington." Connecticut History 26
(1985): 19-32.
 
 Chu, Jonathan M.  Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan
Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay.
Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985.  "Contributions to the
Study of Religion," Number 14.
 
 Clark, Philip Michael.  "Bedlam in Penn's Woods." Pennsylvania
Heritage 15:3 (1989): 4-11.
 
 Dain, Norman.  Disordered Minds: The First Century of Eastern
State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1766-1866. Williamsburg:
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1971, distributed by the University
Press of Virginia.  RC445 V83 W65
 
 Dayton, Cornelia Hughes.  "Madness, Gender, and Dependency in Early
New England." Work in progress at the Center for the Study of New
England History, listed in Summer 1994 Uncommon Sense.
 
 Deutsch, Albert.  The Mentally Ill in America: A History of Their
Care and Treatment from Colonial Times. 2d ed.; New York: Columbia
University Press, 1949. RC443 D4 1949
 
 Dwyer, Ellen.  Homes for the Mad: Life Inside Two
Nineteenth-Century Asylums.  New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers
University Press, 1994.
 
 Gamwell, Lynn, and Nancy Tomes.  Madness in America: Cultural and
Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914.  Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 199.
 
 Gillespie, Joanna Bowen.  "1795: Martha Laurens Ramsay's 'Dark Night
of the Soul.'" William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser. 48:1 (1991):
68-92.
 
 Gollaher, David L.  A Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea
Dix. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
 
 Grob, Gerald N.  Edward Jarvis and the Medical World of
Nineteenth-Century America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1978.  RC339.52 J37 G76
 
 Grob, Gerald N.  From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in
Modern America.  Princeton University Press, 1991.
 
 Grob, Gerald.  The Mad Among Us: A History of America's Care of
the Mentally Ill. New York: Free Press, 1994.
 
 Grob, Gerald N.  Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.  RC443 G75 1983
 
 Grob, Gerald N.  "Mental Illness, Indigency, and Welfare: The Mental
Hospital in Nineteenth-Century America."
In Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social
History, edited by Tamara K. Hareven, 250-70.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, 1971.
 
 Grob, Gerald N.  Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to
1875. New York: Free Press, 1973.  RC443 G76
 
 Hughes, John S., ed.  The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman.
Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1993.
Written while committed to a turn-of-the-century Alabama insane
asylum. RC464 S5 A4 1993
 
 Jimenez, Mary Ann.  Changing Faces of Madness: Early american
Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane.  Hanover, N.H.: University
Press  of New England, 1987.  RC455.2 P85 J56 1987
 
 Jimenez, Mary Ann.  "Madness in Early American History: Insanity
in Massachusetts from 1700 to 1820." Journal of Social History
20:1 (1986): 25-44.
 
 McGovern, Constance M.  Masters of Madness: Social Origins of the
American Psychiatric Profession. Hanover: University Press of New
England, 1985.
 
 MacDonald, Michael.  Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and
Healing in Seventeenth-Century England.  Cambridge University Press,
1991.  RC438 M27
 
 Porter, Roy.  Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England
from the Restoration to the Regency. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1983. RC450 G7 P67 1987
 
 Porter, Roy.  A Social History of Madness. London: Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, 1987.  RC464 A1 P67 1987
 
 Ripa, Yannick.  Women and Madness: The Incarceration of Women in
Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge: Polity Press in Association
with Basil Blackwell, 1990.  RC450 F7 R5713 1990
 
 Rosen, George.  Madness in Society: Chapters in the Historical
Sociology of Mental Illness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1968.  RC438 R81
 
 Scull, Andrew.  The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and
Society in Britain, 1700-1900. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1993.
 
 Showalter, Elaine.  The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English
Culture, 1830-1980. New York: Pantheon, 1985.  RC451.4 W6 S56 1985
 
 Tomes, Nancy.  The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride
and the Origins of American Psychiatry. University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1994.
 
 Tyler, Peter.  "'Denied the Power to Choose The Good': Sexuality and
Mental Defect in the American Medical Practice." Journal of Social
History 10 (1977).