Psychiatric nursing: origings and contemporary issues -- 2. In search of the roots of psychiatric nursing -- 3. Asylum care and culture -- 4. Training for the attendants -- 5. Mental nursing in the early 20th century -- 6. Mental nursing during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s -- 7. Mental nursing in the 1960s and 1970s -- 8. Mental nursing in the 1980s -- 9. Past, present and future