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Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.
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This Way Madness Lies, Mike Jay
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- This Way Madness Lies
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mike Jay
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0500518971
- ISBN13
- 9780500518977
- Category
- Social sciences, History
- Description
- Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.