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Barnes, R.A., J. Ennis and R. Schober. “Cohort Analysis of the Ontario Suicide Rates, 1877- 1976.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 31:3 (April, 1986): 208-13. 

 “Brian.” “Don’t Scapegoat Me.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 228-232.

Brinded, P.M.J., J.E. Smith and F.E. Grant. “The Spectre of Criminalization: Remand Admissions to the Forensic Psychiatric Institute, British Columbia, 1975-1990.” Medicine, Science, and the Law 36:1 (January, 1996): 59-64. 

Burgess, T.J.W. “Presidential Address – The Insane in Canada.” American Journal of Insanity 62 (July, 1905):1-36. 

Coates, Donald. “The Outpatient Department.” In Edward Shorter (ed). TPH: History and Memories of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, 1925-1966. Toronto: Wall and Emerson, 1996: 271-291. 

Conley-Active, D. “What to Do About Boris.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 41-43. 

Davies, Megan J. “The Women Beyond the Gates: Female Mental Health Patients in British Columbia, 1910-1935.” In Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Women and Well-Being. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1990: 53-64.

Davies, Megan J. “Snapshots: Three Women and Psychiatry, 1920-1935.” Canadian Woman Studies 8 (1987): 47-48. 

de la Cour, Lykke. “‘She thinks this is the queen’s castle’: Women Patients’ Perceptions of an Ontario Psychiatric Hospital.” Health and Place 3:2 (1997): 131-141. 

de la Cour, Lykke. and Reaume, Geoffrey. “Patient Perspectives in Psychiatric Case Files.” In Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (eds.). On the Case: Explorations in Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. 

Duff, Heather. “ Teak-Lined Ward: A Diary Excerpt.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 235-238.

Dziodecki, Anna (a pseudonym). “My Experience with Psychiatric Wards.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 89-94.

 (Editorial) “Admission of Patients to Hospitals for the Insane.” Bulletin of the Toronto Hospital for the Insane 1:3 (October, 1907): 13-14. 

Firsten, Temi. “Violence in the Lives of Women on Psych Wards.” Canadian Woman Studies 11:4 (Summer, 1991): 45-48. 

G., L.C. (Patient at Hospital for the Insane, Brockville, Ontario). “Eastertide.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane, 6:3 (April, 1913): 177-178. 

Gibson, Margaret. “Lila.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 99-110. 

Hall, Ernest A. “Re the Mental Invalid – A Plea.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 13:5 (May, 1903): 363. 

Hardy, Eldon. “No Acquittal.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 139-148. 

Harper, V. “Them crazy Indians.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 121-125. 

Herman, Nancy J. and C.M. Smith. “Mental Hospital Depopulation in Canada: Patient Perspectives.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 34:5 (June, 1989): 386-392. 

Jackson, Harvey (Alf). “This Is Therapy?” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 217-219.

Keefe, Peter. “Recollections of a Patient at TPH: Snakepit.” In Edward Shorter (ed). TPH: History and Memories of the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, 1925-1966. Toronto: Wall and Emerson, 1996: 171-182.

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. “A Life Apart: The Experience of Women and the Asylum Practice of Charles Doherty at British Columbia’s Provincial Hospital for the Insane, 1905-1915.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 11 (1994): 335-355.

Kelm, Mary-Ellen. “Women, Families, and the Provincial Hospital for the Insane, British Columbia, 1905-1915.” Journal of Family History 19:2 (1994): 177-194. 

Kingstone, Edward. “General Hospital Psychiatry” . In Quentin Rae-Grant (ed.). Images in Psychiatry: Canada. Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1996: 21-28. 

Kirk-Montgomery, Allison. “‘Loaded Revolvers’: Ontario’s First Forensic Psychiatrists.” In James E. Moran and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montréal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

Menzies, Robert. “‘I do not care for a lunatic’s role’: Modes of Regulation and Resistance Inside the Colquitz Mental Home for the ‘Criminally Insane,’ 1919-1933.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 16:2 (1999): 181-213. 

Menzies, Robert and Ted Palys. “Turbulent Spirits: Aboriginal Patients in the British Columbia Psychiatric System.” In James E. Moran and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. McGill-Queen’s University Press: Montréal- Kingston), 2005. 

Mercier, Celine, Claude Renaud, and Suzanne King. “A Thirty-Year Retrospective Study of Hospitalization Among Severely Mentally III Patients.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 39:2 (March, 1994): 95-102. 

Miedema, Baukje. “Control or Treatment? Experiences of People Who Have Been Psychiatrically Hospitalized in New Brunswick.” Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 13:1 (Spring, 1994): 111-122.

Miedema, Baukje and Janet M. Stoppard. “Asylum, Bedlam or Cure? Explaining Contradictions in Women’s Experiences of Psychiatric Hospitalization.” In Houston Stewart, Beth Percival, and Elizabeth R. Epperly (eds.). The More We Get Together: Women and Disability. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy Books, 1992: 57-69. 

Mills, Elizabeth. “The Prevention of Noise in Hospitals for the Insane.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane 7:4 (July, 1914): 250-255.

Mercier, Celine, Claude Renaud, and Suzanne King. “A Thirty-Year Retrospective Study of Hospitalization Among Severely Mentally III Patients.” Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 39:2 (March, 1994): 95-102. 

Miedema, Baukje. “Control or Treatment? Experiences of People Who Have Been Psychiatrically Hospitalized in New Brunswick.” Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 13:1 (Spring, 1994): 111-122.

Miedema, Baukje and Janet M. Stoppard. “Asylum, Bedlam or Cure? Explaining Contradictions in Women’s Experiences of Psychiatric Hospitalization.” In Houston Stewart, Beth Percival, and Elizabeth R. Epperly (eds.). The More We Get Together: Women and Disability. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy Books, 1992: 57-69. 

Mills, Elizabeth. “The Prevention of Noise in Hospitals for the Insane.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane 7:4 (July, 1914): 250-255.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Problematic Bodies and Agency: Women Patients in Canada, 1900-1950.” In Franca Iacovetta and Wendy Mitchinson (eds.). On The Case: Explorations in Social History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Mitchinson, Wendy. “Reasons for Committal to a Mid-Nineteenth Century Ontario Insane Asylum: The Case of Toronto.” In Wendy Mitchinson and Janice Dickin McGinnis (eds.). Essays in the History of Canadian Medicine. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988.

Nootens, Thierry. “Famille, communauté et folie au tournant du siècle.” Revue d’histoire de l’Amerique francaise 53:1 (été, 1999): 93-119. 

Nootens, Thierry. “‘For Years We Have Never Had a Happy Home”: Madness and Families in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.” In James E. Moran and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montréal-Kingston: McGill- Queen’s University Press, 2006.

Parker, Meta. “The Admitting of a Patient to the Mental Hospital.” Bulletin of the Ontario Hospitals for the Insane 8:2 (January, 1915): 94-95.

Parm, Evelyn. “Good Old ‘999.’” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 111-115.

 “Post-Mortems on Bodies of the Insane.” Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery 14:5 (November, 1903): 382-383.

Pratt, Margaret. “Just Make It To Tomorrow.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 55-70.

Radford, John and Deborah C. Park “‘A Convenient Means of Riddance’: Institutionalization of People Diagnosed as ‘Mentally Deficient’ in Ontario, 1876-1934.” Health and Canadian Society 1:2 (1993): 369-392.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Accounts of Abuse of Patients at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1883- 1937.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 14 (1997): 65-106.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Keep your labels off my mind! or “Now I am going to pretend I am craze but don’t Be a bit alarmed!’: Psychiatric History from the Patients’ Perspectives.” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 11 (1994): 397-424. 

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Psychiatric Patient Advocacy Groups, Institutions and a Medical Archives Bibliography.” In Enhancing Communication and Community: A Proactive Healthcare Archives Assistance Policy. Toronto: Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, 1994: 16-20.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Patients at Work: Insane Asylum Inmate Labour in Ontario, 1841-1900.” In James E. Moran and David Wright (eds.). Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives. Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

Reaume, Geoffrey. “Mental Hospital Patients and Family Relations in Southern Ontario, 1880- 1930.” In Lori Chambers and Edgar-André Montigny (eds.). Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1998.

Reville, David. “Don’t Spyhole Me.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 157 – 196.

Skov, Jean. “Recovering From Psychiatry: How I Got Myself Back.” In Bonnie Burstow and Don Weitz (eds.). Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1988: 149-154. 

Smith, Dorothy E. “The Statistics on Mental Illness: (What They Will Not Tell Us About Women and Why).” In Dorothy E. Smith and Sara J. David (eds.). Women Look at Psychiatry. Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1975: 73-119.

Sullivan, Patrick. “War Ended Decades Ago but POWs’ Problems Continue.” Canadian Medical Association Journal 137:9 (November 1, 1987): 837.