International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States to World War II addresses a crucial period in the history of psychiatry by examining the transfer of conceptual, institutional, and financial resources and the migration of psychiatrists between Britain, the United States, and Germany.

IntroductionInspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Heinz-Peter SchmiedebachPermeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of "Medico-Pedagogy" in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain - Mark JacksonOrganizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903-1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy - Eric J. EngstromGermany and the Making of "English" Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908-1939 - Rhodri HaywardPatterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact ofWorld War I - John C. Burnham"Beyond the Clinical Frontiers": The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910-1945 - Hans PolsMental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of theTwentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence - Mathew ThomsonPsychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920-1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887-1973) - Volker RoelckeExplorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry:The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899-1939 - Louise WestwoodWelsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources - Pamela MichaelAlien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930-1950 - Paul WeindlingSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex