The architecture of madness : insane asylums in the United States / Carla Yanni.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007], ©2007.

xi, 191 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-185) and index.

Transforming the treatment : architecture and moral management -- Establishing the type : the development of Kirkbride plan hospitals and hope for an architectural cure -- Breaking down : the cottage plan for asylums -- Building up : hospitals for the insane after the Civil War -- Conclusion : the changing spaces of mental illness.