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• 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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Letter to the Right Honourable The Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect (London: R. Hunter, 1823), by John Haslam (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)

• 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)
• 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)

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

• Ten Days in a Mad-House (with miscellaneous sketches "Trying to be a Servant," and "Nellie Bly as a White Slave"), by Nellie Bly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at surgeongeneral.gov)
• Institutional Racism and Community Competence (1982), ed. by Oscar A. Barbarin, Paul R. Good, O. Martin Pharr, and Judith A. Siskind (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mental Hygiene (partial serial archives)
• ADAMHA News, by United States Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (partial serial archives)

• Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• You're Not Alone: The Journey From Abduction to Empowerment (2008), by United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.org)

• The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the World, by Bernhard Schreiber, trans. by H. R. Martindale (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Depression and College Students: Answers to College Students' Frequently Asked Questions About Depression (2012), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats at NIH)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (1999), by United States Department of Health and Human Services (PDF files at surgeongeneral.gov)

• The Dark Other (Los Angeles: Fantasy Publishing Co., 1950), by Stanley G. Weinbaum, illust. by Jon Arfstrom (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Patricia Beezley Mrazek and Robert J. Haggerty (page images and background material at NAP)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders: Frontiers for Preventive Intervention Research, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Patricia Beezley Mrazek and Robert J. Haggerty (page images and background material at NAP)

• Deportation by Default: Mental Disability, Unfair Hearings, and Indefinite Detention in the US Immigration System (c2010), by Sarah Mehta (HTML at hrw.org)

• The Feeble Minded in New York: A Report Prepared for the Public Education Association of New York (New York: State Charities Aid Association, 1911), by Anne Moore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• 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)

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