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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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'A fascinating tour d’horizon' - Guardian
'Fascinating and lavishly illustrated' - Wall Street Journal
'Superb…the text exhibits all the lucidity you could wish for when struggling to apprehend this most disturbing and problematic of subjects' - Will Self, The London Review of Books
'Immaculately researched … essential reading' - The Psychologist

Table of Contents
Introduction • 1. The Madhouse 1676–1815 • 2. The Lunatic Asylum 1815–1930 3. The Mental Hospital 1930 and beyond • Epilogue

This Way Madness Lies

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      Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
      Published 15 September 2016
      ISBN-13 9780500518977
      978-0500518977
      ISBN-10 0500518971
      Also in:
      History Social and cultural history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      'A fascinating tour d’horizon' - Guardian
      'Fascinating and lavishly illustrated' - Wall Street Journal
      'Superb…the text exhibits all the lucidity you could wish for when struggling to apprehend this most disturbing and problematic of subjects' - Will Self, The London Review of Books
      'Immaculately researched … essential reading' - The Psychologist

      Table of Contents
      Introduction • 1. The Madhouse 1676–1815 • 2. The Lunatic Asylum 1815–1930 3. The Mental Hospital 1930 and beyond • Epilogue

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