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African studies : history, politics, economics, and culture

Prospects of a progressive mental health system in South Africa before apartheid: Tara Hospital and psychobiology, c.1939-1948

The "disordered" state: government policies and institutions for the administration of the mad during apartheid, 1948-1973

Patient accounts: life in state institutions and challenging exile, 1939-1961

Heinous crimes: community and cross-cultural psychiatry, and state mental health services for non-whites, 1948-1990

Controlling and challenging sexuality: psychiatric struggles over homosexuality in the 1960s-1980s

"Monopoly on madness?": private long-term mental institutions in South Africa, 1963-1989

Critics of the system?: the Church of Scientology and the international vilification of psychiatry in South Africa

Conclusion.

Mental health services > South Africa.

Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > South Africa.

Mentally ill > Abuse of > South Africa.

Mental health policy > Social aspects > South Africa.

South Africa > Race relations.