| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Lawrence B. Goodheart. Mad Yankees: The Hartford Retreat for the Insane and Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 218. $34.95.

For the past two decades or so, there has been something of a vogue in the history of psychiatry for books devoted to the analysis of a single mental hospital. A number of these have made serious contributions to the historiography of the asylum, breaking important new ground in the analysis of the relationship between institution, patients, and families. The Hartford Retreat, known since the early 1940s as the Institute of Living, has hitherto been examined only as part of a larger group of asylums, the so-called corporate asylums that, early in the nineteenth century, pioneered the new moral treatment approach to the mentally ill that originated in Britain and continental Europe. Its history, however, is a fascinating one, and well worth examining on an individual basis. Lawrence B. Goodheart has now attempted such a full-length treatment, and if his book fails to constitute a very original contribution to the literature, it remains nonetheless a useful survey of the development of an important asylum from the Jacksonian period to the early 1870s.

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