| Foreword | |
| Editor's Note | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Abstract I: The Moment of Origin | 19 |
| Pt. 1 | Advent, Apotheosis, and Failure of the Asylum Establishment | |
| Abstract II | 23 |
| Ch. I | La Salpetriere, or The Double Birth of the Asylum | 25 |
| Ch. II | The Politics of the Asylum | 49 |
| Ch. III | Impossible Power | 84 |
| Ch. IV | A Socializing Machine | 100 |
| Abstract III: Crisis, Agony, and Repetition | 145 |
| Abstract IV: Esquirol at La Salpetriere | 145 |
| Pt. 2 | The Passions as a Sketch of a General Theory of Mental Alienation | |
| Abstract V: Esqirol in 1805 | 149 |
| Abstract VI: The Clinical Resolution | 149 |
| Abstract VII: Between the Will to Madness and Brain Lesions | 149 |
| Abstract VIII: What the Passions Make It Possible to Think (Beginning) | 150 |
| Ch. V | What the Passions Make It Possible to Think | 151 |
| Ch. VI | Reducing Insanity: The Mirror of Alterity | 163 |
| Abstract IX: Approaches to Healing; How to Speak to the Insane | 167 |
| Ch. VII | The Society of Individuals and the Institution of Speech | 169 |
| Ch. VIII | The Conquest of Dissymmetry | 194 |
| Ch. IX | Openings and Aporia of Moral Treatment | 230 |
| Epilogue: Social Divide, Division of the Subject, Mad Rupture | 255 |
| Notes | 283 |
| List of Works Cited | 311 |
| Index | 317 |
