Part one. The asylum era: Mausoleums of the mad
The checkered career of electroconvulsive therapy
Part two. Disturbed minds: Creating a new psychiatry
Professional transformations
Part three. A psychiatric revolution: The birth of psychopharmacology
Diagnosing mental illness
The complexities of psychopharmacology
Genetics, neuroscience, and the origins of mental illness
The crisis of contemporary psychiatry
Epilogue: Does psychiatry have a future?