This book offers a general introduction to historical sources in the history of psychiatry, delving into the range of sources that can be used to investigate this dynamic and exciting field.

Introduction, 1. Asylum Records: Files, Notes, Casebooks, and Patient Registers, 2. Photographic Sources in the History of Psychiatry, 3. Using Asylum Post-Mortem Records in the History of Psychiatry, 4. Psychiatry's Material Culture: The Symbolic Power of the Straitjacket, 5. Medical Journals, 6. Experiments in Life: Literature's Contribution to the History of Psychiatry, 7. Sources and Methods in the Histories of Colonial Psychiatry, 8. Legal Sources in the History of Psychiatry, 9. Removing the 'Veil of Secrecy': Public Inquiries as Sources in the History of Psychiatry, 1960s-1970s, 10. Activist Sources and the Survivor Movement, 11. Patients, Practitioners, and Protestors: Feminist Sources and Approaches in the History of Psychiatry, 12. Using Art in the History of Psychiatry, 13. Using Film in the History of Psychiatry, 14. Oral History in the History of Psychiatry