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Brandwein, Ann. "An Eighteenth-Century Depression: The Sad Conclusion of Faith Trumbull Huntington." Connecticut History 26 (1985): 19-32.

Chu, Jonathan M. Neighbors, Friends, or Madmen: The Puritan Adjustment to Quakerism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts Bay. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. "Contributions to the Study of Religion," Number 14.

Clark, Philip Michael. "Bedlam in Penn's Woods." Pennsylvania Heritage 15:3 (1989): 4-11.

Dain, Norman. Disordered Minds: The First Century of Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1766-1866. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1971, distributed by the University Press of Virginia. RC445 V83 W65

Dayton, Cornelia Hughes. "Madness, Gender, and Dependency in Early New England." Work in progress at the Center for the Study of New England History, listed in Summer 1994 Uncommon Sense.

Deutsch, Albert. The Mentally Ill in America: A History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times. 2d ed.; New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. RC443 D4 1949

Dwyer, Ellen. Homes for the Mad: Life Inside Two Nineteenth-Century Asylums. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Gamwell, Lynn, and Nancy Tomes. Madness in America: Cultural and Medical Perceptions of Mental Illness before 1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 199.

Gillespie, Joanna Bowen. "1795: Martha Laurens Ramsay's 'Dark Night of the Soul.'" William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser. 48:1 (1991): 68-92.

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Grob, Gerald N. From Asylum to Community: Mental Health Policy in Modern America. Princeton University Press, 1991.

Grob, Gerald. The Mad Among Us: A History of America's Care of the Mentally Ill. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Grob, Gerald N. Mental Illness and American Society, 1875-1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. RC443 G75 1983

Grob, Gerald N. "Mental Illness, Indigency, and Welfare: The Mental Hospital in Nineteenth-Century America." In Anonymous Americans: Explorations in Nineteenth-Century Social History, edited by Tamara K. Hareven, 250-70. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Grob, Gerald N. Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875. New York: Free Press, 1973. RC443 G76

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Jimenez, Mary Ann. Changing Faces of Madness: Early american Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1987. RC455.2 P85 J56 1987

Jimenez, Mary Ann. "Madness in Early American History: Insanity in Massachusetts from 1700 to 1820." Journal of Social History 20:1 (1986): 25-44.

McGovern, Constance M. Masters of Madness: Social Origins of the American Psychiatric Profession. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1985.

MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press, 1991. RC438 M27

Porter, Roy. Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. RC450 G7 P67 1987

Porter, Roy. A Social History of Madness. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. RC464 A1 P67 1987

Ripa, Yannick. Women and Madness: The Incarceration of Women in Nineteenth-Century France. Cambridge: Polity Press in Association with Basil Blackwell, 1990. RC450 F7 R5713 1990

Rosen, George. Madness in Society: Chapters in the Historical Sociology of Mental Illness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968. RC438 R81

Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. New York: Pantheon, 1985. RC451.4 W6 S56 1985

Tomes, Nancy. The Art of Asylum-Keeping: Thomas Story Kirkbride and the Origins of American Psychiatry. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Tyler, Peter. "'Denied the Power to Choose The Good': Sexuality and Mental Defect in the American Medical Practice." Journal of Social History 10 (1977).