A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.
A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.
1. Introduction: Mental disorder and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900; 2. The making of the modern prison system: reformation, separation and the mind, 1840-1860; 3. The prison medical officer: Deterrence, dual loyalty and the production of psychiatric expertise, 1860-1895; 4. Criminal or lunatic, prisoner of patient?: Confining insanity in the late nineteenth century; 5. 'He puts on symptoms of incoherence': Feigning and detecting insanity in nineteenth-century prisons; 6. Conclusion: The decline of the separate system, the prisoner patient and enduring legacies; Bibliography; Index.
1. Introduction: Mental disorder and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900; 2. The making of the modern prison system: reformation, separation and the mind, 1840-1860; 3. The prison medical officer: Deterrence, dual loyalty and the production of psychiatric expertise, 1860-1895; 4. Criminal or lunatic, prisoner of patient?: Confining insanity in the late nineteenth century; 5. 'He puts on symptoms of incoherence': Feigning and detecting insanity in nineteenth-century prisons; 6. Conclusion: The decline of the separate system, the prisoner patient and enduring legacies; Bibliography; Index.
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