1. Introduction: Psy, Gender, and Containment -- Part I Historical ‘Psy’ Discourses Revisited -- 2. Sickening Institutions: A Feminist Sociological Analysis and Critique of Religion, Medicine, and Psychiatry -- 3. Traditions of Colonial and Eugenic Violence: Immigration Detention in Canada -- 4. Gender, Madness, and the Legacies of the Prisons Information Group (GIP) -- Part II Containing Bodies -- 5. Patients’ Perspective on Mechanical Restraints in Acute and Emergency Psychiatric Settings: A Poststructural Feminist Analysis -- 6. Carceral Optics and the Crucible of Segregation: Revisiting Scenes of State-Sanctioned Violence Against Incarcerated Women -- 7. Gender Dysphoria and the Medical Gaze in Anglo-American Carceral Regimes -- Part III The Asylum and Beyond -- 8. Uncovering the Heteronormative Order of the Psychiatric Institution: A Queer Reading of Chart Documentation and Language Use -- 9. Assessing ‘Insight’, Determining Agency and Autonomy: Implicating Social Identities -- 10. When a Man’s Home Isn’t a Castle: Hegemonic Masculinity Among Men Experiencing Homelessness and Mental Illness -- 11. Dangerous Discourses: Masculinity, Coercion, and Psychiatry -- 12. Conclusion: Expanding the Concept of ‘Containment’.