Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 / Akihito Suzuki.

Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, [2006], ©2006.

xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index.

Commissions of lunacy: background, sources, and content -- The structure of psychiatric practice -- The problems of liberty and property -- Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere -- Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime -- Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.