Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with psychiatric programs methods and reforms promising to address any number of crises in mental health care. When these fail alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere.amp160In an original and compelling account of radical experimentation in psychiatry Warren traces a double movement in the global development of mental health services throughout the 20th century a radical current pushing totalizing and idealistic visions of care to their practical limits and a reactionary one content with managing or eliminating chronically idle surplus populations.amp160Moral treatment is read in light of the utopian socialist movement the theory of communication in the French Institutional Psychotherapy of Famp233eacutelix Guattari is put into conversation with the Brazilian art therapy of Nise da Silveira the Mexican antipsychiatry movements reflections on violence are thought together with theories of violence developed in Argentinian psychoanalysis and Frantz Fanonamp8217s anticolonial therapeutic practice the social form of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry and Brazilian antiinstitutional movements are contrasted with the antipsychiatry factions of the 1960s70s North American counterculture.Storming Bedlam Madness Utopia and Revolt subverts the divisions between social and biological approaches to mental health or between psychiatry and antipsychiatry. By exploring the history of psychiatry in the context of revolution war and economic development Warren outlines a minor history of approaches to mental health care grounded in common struggles against conditions of scarcity poverty isolation and exploitation.