1. Introduction: Interpreting Psychiatric Spaces - Madhouses, Asylums and Hospitals in Context

2. Sculptural Decoration and Spatial Experience in Early Modern Dutch Asylums

3. The Architecture of Confinement: Urban Public Asylums in England, 1750-1820

4. Placing Psychiatric Practices: On the Spatial Configurations and Contests of Professional Labour in Late-Nineteenth Century Germany - Case Studies in Psychiatric Space

5. A Space for Moral Management: The York Retreat’s Influence on Asylum Design

6. Scaling the Asylum: Three Geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum

7. This Coy and Secluded Dwelling: Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane - Beyond the Institution

8. The Architecture of Madness: Informal and Formal Spaces of Treatment and Care in Nineteenth-Century New Jersey

9. Community Spaces and Psychiatric Family Care in Belgium, France and Germany: A Comparative Study -Race and Space in Colonial Asylums

10. The Great Asylum Laundry: Space, Classification and Imperialism in Cape Town

11. Waltraud Ernst, Madness and Colonial Spaces – British India, c. 1800-1947 - Architects and Institutions

12. The Modern Mental Hospital in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany and Austria: Psychiatric Space and Images of Freedom and Control

13. The Architect and the Pauper Asylum in Late Nineteenth-Century England: G. T. Hine's 1901 Review of Asylum Space and Planning - Spatial Players: Professionals and Patients

14. Controlling Space, Transforming Visibility: Psychiatrists, Nursing Staff, Violence and the Case of Haematoma Auris in German Psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870

15. ‘A Small Corner That’s For Myself’: Space, Place and Patients’ Experiences of Mental Health Care, 1948-1998

Devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space, this volume of papers will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities