1. Voices in the History of Madness: An Introduction to Patient and Practitioner Perspectives- Rob Ellis, Sarah Kendal and Steven J. Taylor -- Part I: Shifting Perspectives in The Industry of Madness -- 2. Accepted and Rejected: Late nineteenth-century application for admission to the Scottish National Institution for the Education of Imbecile Children- Iain Hutchison -- 3. Mental health in the Vernacular: Print and Counter-hegemonic Approaches to Madness in Colonial Bengal- Pradipto Roy -- 4. "The root of all evil is inactivity": The response of French psychiatrists to new approaches to patient work and occupation, 1918-1939- Jane Freebody -- 5. Distant voices - treatment of mentally ill children at the Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, c. 1935-1976- Jennie Sejr Junghans -- Part II Reconstructing Patient Perspectives -- 6. Experiences of the Madhouse in England, 1650-1810- Leonard Smith -- 7. "Tells his story quite rationally and collectedly": Examining the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1910, for cases of delusion where patients voiced their life stories- Rory du Plessis -- 8. Dehumanizing Experience, Rehumanizing Self-Awareness: Perception Of Violence In Psychiatric Hospitals Of Soviet Lithuania- Tomas Vaiseta -- 9. "I Like My Job because It Will Get Me Out Quicker": Work, Independence, and Disability at Indiana's Central State Hospital (1986-1993)- Emily Beckman, Elizabeth Nelson and Modupe Labode -- 10. "More than Bricks and Mortar:" Meaningful Care Practices in the Old State Mental Hospitals- Verusca Calabria, Di Bailey, Graham Bowpitt -- 11. Patient Photographs, Patient Voices: Recovering Patient Experience in the Nineteenth Century Asylum- Katherine Rawling -- Part III The Visual and The Material -- 12. Tracking Traces of the Art Extraordinary Collection- Cheryl McGeachan -- 13. A boundary between two worlds? Community perceptions of former asylums in Lancashire, England- Carolyn Gibbeson and Katie Beattie -- Part IV: Mad Studies And Activism -- 14. Brutal sanity and mad compassion. Tracing the voice of Dorothea Buck- Elena Demke -- 15. Mad Activists and the Left in Ontario, 1970s to 2000- Geoffrey Reaume -- 16. Knowing our own minds: transforming the knowledge base of madness and distress- Alison Faulkner -- 17. Making Public Their Use of History: Reflections on the History of Collective Action by Psychiatric Patients, the Oor Mad History Project and Survivors History Group- Mark Gallagher -- 18. Often, when I am using my voice... it does not go well. Perspectives on the service user experience- Megan Alikhanizadeh, Corey Hartley, Sarah Kendal, Liz Neill, Gemma Trainor -- 19. Coda - Speaking Madness: Word, Image, Action- Catharine Coleborne -- 20 Correction to: Mental Health in the Vernacular: Print and Counter-Hegemonic Approaches to Madness in Colonial Bengal.