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• "They Call Them Camisoles" (Los Angeles: Lymanhouse, c1940), by Wilma Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• A Mad World and its Inhabitants (New York: D. Appleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Marston, Searl and Rivington, 1877), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Exposing the Modern Secret Way of Persecuting Christians in Order to Hush the Voice of Truth: Insane Hospitals are Inquisition Houses; All Heaven is Interested in This Crime (Boston: Printed for the author, 1859), by Elizabeth T. Stone (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)
• The Travels and Experience of Miss Phebe B. Davis of Barnard, Windsor County, Vt. (Syracuse: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1860), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith, ed. by Montagu Lomax (page images at tmc.edu)

• The Right Spirit (Buffalo: Courier Co., 1885), by Lizzie D. Cottier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Days in a Mad-House (with miscellaneous sketches "Trying to be a Servant," and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave"; New York: N. L. Munro, n.d.), by Nellie Bly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Wild Woman, or, The Wrecked Heart: Being the True Autobiography of the "Wild Woman" Who Was Recently Exhibited at Cincinnati, and Was Rescued From Her Persecutors by the Citizens of That City, and Sent to the Insane Asylum at Dayton, Ohio (Cincinnati: Barclay and Co., c1857), by Alice Galon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica; Together With the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse (1855), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at Google)

• Community Mental Health: The Role of Church and Temple, ed. by Howard Clinebell (HTML at religion-online.org)

• Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • 2 volumes in 1: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: A Study in Medico-Sociological Jurisprudence, With an Appendix of State Legislation and Interpretive Decisions, by Sheldon Glueck (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Smart Culture: Society, Intelligence, and Law (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Robert L. Hayman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional Rights of the Mentally Ill: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Seventh Congress, First Session (2 parts; Washington: GPO, 1961), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • 2 volumes in 1: multiple formats at Google
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, by Ebenezer Haskell (page images at MOA)

• Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Resident Physician of the Lunatic Asylum of the State of Georgia, by Georgia Lunatic Asylum (partial serial archives)

• Reports of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, 1847-1862 (Chicago: F. Fulton and Co., 1863), by Jacksonville Insane Asylum (Ill.), contrib. by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at Google)

• From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)

• An Account of the Imprisonment and Sufferings of Robert Fuller, of Cambridge (Boston: Printed for the author, 1833), by Robert Fuller (multiple formats at Google)

• Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica; Together With the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse (1855), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at Google)

• Annual Report, by Longview Asylum and Longview Hospital (partial serial archives)

• Annual Report, by Ohio Board of Administration (full serial archives)

• Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane: Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, February 3, 1845 (Philadelphia: I. Ashmead, printer, 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Opal (partial serial archives)

• Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum, From August 20th, 1863, to December 20th, 1865 (Saratoga Springs, NY: Van Benthuysen and Sons' Steam Printing House, 1868), by Hiram Chase
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Travels and Experience of Miss Phebe B. Davis of Barnard, Windsor County, Vt. (Syracuse: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1860), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Years and Three Months in the New York Lunatic Asylum at Utica; Together With the Outlines of Twenty Years' Peregrinations in Syracuse (1855), by Phebe B. Davis (multiple formats at Google)

• Report of the Trustees, Superintendent and Resident Physician of the Lunatic Asylum of the State of Georgia, by Georgia Lunatic Asylum (partial serial archives)

• From Under the Cloud: or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1886), by Anna Agnew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Astounding Disclosures! Three Years in a Mad House, by a Victim (Skowhegan, ME: Printed for the author, 1851), by Isaac H. Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annual Report, by Longview Asylum and Longview Hospital (partial serial archives)

• Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital for the Insane: Submitted to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, February 3, 1845 (Philadelphia: I. Ashmead, printer, 1845), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (page images at HathiTrust)

• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Psychiatric Disabilities, Employment and the Americans With Disabilities Act (OTA-BP-BBS-124; 1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography (fourth edition; New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1917), by Clifford Whittingham Beers (multiple formats at archive.org)