- Introduction
- 1. The World of the American Alienist, 1896
- 2. Adolf Meyer Brings Dementia Praecox to America
- 3. Emil Kraepelin
- 4. The American Reception of Dementia Praecox and Manic Depressive Insanity, 1896–1905
- 5. The Lost Biological Psychiatry
- 6. The Rise of the Mind Twist Men, 1903–1913
- 7. Bayard Taylor Holmes and Radically Rational Treatments
- 8. The Rise of Schizophrenia in America, 1912–1927
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


American Madness
The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox
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$56.00 • £44.95 • €50.50
ISBN 9780674047396
Publication Date: 11/28/2011
Awards & Accolades
- 2012 Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral & Social Sciences