This is the first volume of essays devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space.

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