Sane Asylums

Jerry M. Kantor examines the success of homeopathic psychiatric asylums in America from the post-Civil War era until 1920.

Foreword by Eric Leskowitz, M. D.

Preface

INTRODUCTION
The Dead Sea Scrolls of Homeopathy and Psychiatry

1 Who Are the Mad and Where Shall They Dwell?

2 The Dawn of Enlightened Mental Health Care

3 Homeopathy to the Fore

4 The Madness of Mary Todd Lincoln

5 Enter Selden Haines Talcott

6 Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital’ s Utopian Agenda

7 Walking the Talk

8 Play Ball! The Innovation of Baseball Therapy

9 Genius Physician and Nurse-Educator Clara Barrus

10 Disciples and Satellites of the Mother Church

11 Concessions to the Spirit of the Times

12 Investing in Sanity

Appendices

1 Compendium of Madness Perspectives

2 Exemplifying Nanomedicine: The Research of Dr. Iris Bell

3 Samuel Hahnemann’ s Mental Health Aphorisms

4 Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital Treatments and Case Studies

5 The 1916 General Summary of Homeopathic Hospitals and Sanatoriums

Resources

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author