History Resources
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Books
Chappell, D. (Ed.). (2013). Policing and the Mentally Ill: International perspectives. Routledge. Book available at this link.
Cherry, C. L. (1989). A quiet haven : Quakers, moral treatment, and asylum reform. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. More information here. Print book.
Cummins, I. (2021). Mental Health Services and Community Care: A critical history. Bristol University Press. Book available at this link.
Diesfeld, K. & Freckelton, I. (Eds.). (2003). Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International perspectives on civil commitment. Routledge. Book available at this link.
Failer, J. L. (2002). Who qualifies for rights?: Homelessness, mental illness, and civil commitment. Cornell University Press. Book available at this link.
Grob, G.N. (2017). Mental institutions in America: Social policy to 1875. Taylor & Francis. Book available at this link.
*Hayton, D. (2020). The inmate's window: Iron, innovation, and the secure asylum. In Slaton, A. (Ed.), New materials: Towards a history of consistency (pp. 168-202). Chapter available at this link.
Holstein, J.A. (1993). Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive practice and involuntary commitment (1st ed.). Routledge. Book available at this link.
Jones, H.K. (2013). Byberry State Hospital. Arcadia Publishing. More information here. Print book.
McDaniel, J. L. M., Moss, K., & Pease, K. G. (2019). Policing and Mental Health: Theory, policy and practice. Routledge. Book available at this link.
McSherry, B. & Freckelton, I. (Eds.). (2013). Coercive Care: Rights, law and policy. Routledge. Book available at this link.
Miller, D. & Hanson, A. (2016). Committed : The battle over involuntary psychiatric care. Johns Hopkins University Press. More information here. Print book.
Perloff, C. B. (1994). The asylum : The history of Friends Hospital and the Quaker contribution to psychiatry. Friends Hospital. More information here. Print book.
Perry, B. L. (Ed.). (2016). 50 Years After Deinstitutionalization: Mental illness in contemporary communities. Emerald Group Publishing, Ltd. More information here. Print book.
Saks, E. R. (2002). Refusing care : forced treatment and the rights of the mentally ill. University of Chicago Press. More information here. Print book.
Webster, J.P. (2013). The Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry: A history of misery and medicine. The History Press. More information here. Print book.
Articles
Dempsey, C., Quanbeck, C., Bush, C., & Kruger, K. (2019, November 29). Decriminalizing mental illness: Specialized policing responses. CNS Spectrums, 25(2), 181-195. Article available at this link.
Dvoskin, J. A., Knoll, J. L., & Silva, M. (2020, March 20). A brief history of the criminalization of mental illness. CNS Spectrums, 25(5), 638-650. Article available at this link.
Kane, E., Evans, E., & Shokraneh, F. (2017, October 19). Effectiveness of current policing‐related mental health interventions: A systematic review. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 28(2), 108-119. Article available at this link.
Lamb, H. R. & Weinberger, L. E. (2019, October 10). Deinstitutionalization and other factors in the criminalization of persons with serious mental illness and how it is being addressed. CNS Spectrums, 25(2), 173-180. Article available at this link.
Morris, N. P. & Kleinman, R. A. (2020, December 1). Involuntary commitments: Billing patients for forced psychiatric care. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 177(12), 1115-1116. Article available at this link.
Novella E. J. (2010). Mental health care in the aftermath of deinstitutionalization: A retrospective and prospective view. Health Care Analysis: Journal of Health Philosophy and Policy, 18(3), 222–238. Article available at this link.
Nussbaum, A. H. (2020, May). Held against our wills: Reimagining involuntary commitment. Health Affairs, 39(5), 898-901. Article available at this link.
*Sisti, D. A., Segal, A. G., & Emanuel, E. J. (2015, Jan 20). Improving long-term psychiatric care: Bring back the asylum. JAMA, 313(3), 243-244. Article available at this link.
*Sisti, D. A., Sinclair, E. A., & Sharfstein, S. S. (2018, May). Bedless psychiatry—Rebuilding behavioral health service capacity. JAMA Psychiatry, 75(5), 417-418. Article available at this link.
Thordarson, H. & Rector, T. (2020, May 6). From trauma-bind to trauma-informed: Re-thinking criminalization and the role of trauma in persons with serious mental illness. CNS Spectrums, 25(5), 577-583. Article available at this link.
Primary Sources
Friends' Asylum, 1813-1913 : with some illustrations of the buildings and grounds. 33-page pamphlet available in-person at the Special Collections Research Center. More information here.