Kieran McNally previously studied and worked at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. He is currently Adjunct Lecturer in Psychology at University College Dublin, Ireland, specializing in the history of psychiatry. He is also the author of the ecological and social history, The Island Imagined by the Sea.

"I have been gleefully reading Kieran McNally's book on the history of schizophrenia, which turns out to be a compendium of great detail and fascination. ... It makes the book enormously valuable both as a treasure trove (in addition to an almost 30 page long reference section, there is a further 10 pages of recommended reading) and as a contribution to our understanding of this unwieldy but influential idea." (Psychodiagnosticator, psychodiagnosticator.blogspot.de, December, 2016)

• Introduction 1. Schizodia: The Lexicon2. The Split Personality3. Definitions of Schizophrenia4. Catatonia: Faces in the Fire5. Chasing the Phantom: Classification6. Myth and Forgetting: Bleuler's Four As7. Social Prejudice8. Contesting Schizophrenia?9. Manufacturing Consensus in North America10. 20th Century SchizophreniaEpilogue: Consider NijinskyAppendix A: Goodbye to Hebephrenia