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Managing Madness is important for tracing the evolution of mental health treatment in Saskatchewan, all the while locating this history within the context of national and international developments. It is a particularly welcome contribution for focussing on the human dimensions of change over time, from outmoded forms of warehousing mad people to deinstitutionalization and (often unfulfilled) plans for community care. - Geoffrey Reaume, Critical Disability Studies, York University

Makes an admirable contribution to our understanding of the history of psychiatric care generally, showing how it was intertwined with the history of one of its most important institutions, the Weyburn Mental Hospital. --C Elizabeth Koester History of Psychiatry Les auteurs de Managing Madness nous offrent en effet un portrait realiste et des plus nuances de ce que fut la transformation des modalites de prise en charge de la maladie mentale dans cette province des Prairies canadiennes au cours du XXe siecle. --Alexandre Klein Histoire sociale/Social history One of the best books I have read in the last year. Detailed, thorough, suggestive, and built around the institutional dynamics of Saskatchewan's Weyburn Mental Hospital, it is the history of an era in Canadian psychiatry. --Andrew Nurse The Canadian Historical Review This is how regional medical history should be written - firmly grounded in place, people, and community, yet with a clear appreciation of events taking place beyond the boundaries of the local. --Megan J. Davies Canadian Bulletin of Medical History A fascinating and nuanced look at the transformation of psychiatric care in Canadian history. --Mariianne Mays Wiebe Canada's History Contains fascinating glimpses into Saskatchewan's psychiatric past. --Ian Dowbiggin Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Makes an admirable contribution to our understanding of the history of psychiatric care generally, showing how it was intertwined with the history of one of its most important institutions, the Weyburn Mental Hospital. - C Elizabeth Koester - History of Psychiatry A fascinating and nuanced look at the transformation of psychiatric care in Canadian history. - Mariianne Mays Wiebe - Canada's History Les auteurs de Managing Madness nous offrent en effet un portrait r?aliste et des plus nuanc's de ce que fut la transformation des modalit's de prise en charge de la maladie mentale dans cette province des Prairies canadiennes au cours du XXe si?cle. - Alexandre Klein - Histoire sociale/Social history Contains fascinating glimpses into Saskatchewan's psychiatric past. - Ian Dowbiggin - Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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Erika Dyck is a historian of health, medicine, and Canadian society at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research has concentrated on the history of mental health, institutionalization, and experimentation. Alexander Deighton is a graduate student in History at the University of Saskatchewan.

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