The decades around 1900 were crucial in the evolution modern medical and social sciences, and in the formation of various national health services systems. The modern fields of psychiatry and mental health care are located at the intersection of these spheres. There emerged concepts, practices, and institutions that marked responses to challenges posed by urbanization, industrialisation, and the formation of the nation-state. These psychiatric responses were locally distinctive, and yet at the same time in part established influential models with an international impact. In spite of rising nationalism in particular in Europe, the intellectual, institutional, and material resources that emerged in the various local and national contexts were rapidly observed beyond any national boundaries. In numerous ways, innovations were adopted and refashioned for the needs and purposes of new national and local systems. International Relations in Psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United States through World War II demonstrates that any up-to-date history of knowledge and medical practices must take forms of transnational communication and transfer into account. The volume brings together hitherto separate approaches from the social, political, and cultural history of medicine and health care and argues that modern psychiatry developed in a constant, though not always continuous, transfer of ideas, perceptions, and experts across national borders. Contributors: John C. Burnham, Eric J. Engstrom, Rhodri Hayward, Mark Jackson, Pamela Michael, Hans Pols, Volker Roelcke, Heinz-Peter Schmiedebach, Mathew Thomson, Paul Weindling, Louise Westwood