American madness : the rise and fall of dementia praecox / Richard Noll.

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2011.

395 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The world of the American alienist, 1896 -- Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America -- Emil Kraepelin -- The American reception of dementia praecox and manic depressive insanity, 1896-1905 -- The lost biological psychiatry -- The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913 -- Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments -- The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.