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Through an examination that uses previously unavailable archives and little-used primary literature, this book places the twentieth-century mental hygiene movement within the broad sweep of modern British psychiatry, offering its own reinterpretation of important elements of this history.

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Preface 1. Moral Treatment and the ´Dialectic of the Family´ 2. Moral Treatment for the Community at Large 3. The Mental Hygiene Movement´s Emotional Contradictions 4. Dialectic Rightside Up? 5. Developing in the Womb of the Old? 6. Alternative Dialectics 7. Alienation Revisited 8. Dialectic Dismembered Afterword Bibliography Index

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Jonathan Toms is a Fellow of the Institute for the History and Work of Therapeutic Environments. He has a PhD in the history of medicine and was a Wellcome Funded Research Fellow at the University of Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine, UK, from 2006-9. He has published articles on the history of mental health and learning disability.

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