UID:
almafu_9959242603902883
Format:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8229-7425-8
Series Statement:
Contemporary community health series A Mad people's history of madness
Content:
A man desperately tries to keep his pact with the Devil, a woman is imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband because of religious differences, and, on the testimony of a mere stranger, "a London citizen" is sentenced to a private madhouse. This anthology of writings by mad and allegedly mad people is a comprehensive overview of the history of mental illness for the past five hundred years-from the viewpoint of the patients themselves.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1436 - The Book of Margery Kempe -- 1677, 1678 - The Diary of Christoph Haizmann -- 1714 - The Life of the Reverend Mr. George Trosse: Written by Himself, and Published Posthumously According to His Order in 1714 -- 1739 - The London-Citizen Exceedingly Injured -- Or, A British Inquisition Display'd, in an Account of the Unparallel'd Case of a Citizen of London, Bookseller to the Late Queen, Who Was in a Most Unjust and Arbitrary Manner Sent on the 23rd of March Last, 1738, by One Robert Wightman, a Mere Stranger, to a Private Madhouse, by Alexander Cruden -- 1774 - One More Proff of the Iniquitous Abuse of Private Madhouses, by Samuel Bruckshaw -- 1816 - Memoir of the Early Life of William Cowper, Esq. -- 1818 - The Interior of Bethlehem Hospital, by Urbane Metcalf -- 1838 and 1840 - A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement -- Designed to Explain the Causes and the Nature of Insanity, and to Expose the Injudicious Conduct Pursued Towards Many Unfortunate Sufferers Under That Calamity, by John Perceval -- 1849 - Five Months in the New-York State Lunatic Asylum, Anonymous -- 1868 - The Prisoner's Hidden Life, or Insane Asylums Unveiled: As Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois. Together with Mrs. Packard's Coadjutors' Testimony, by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard -- 1869 - The Trial of Ebenezer Haskell, in Lunacy, and His Acquittal Before Judge Brewster in November, 1868, together with a Brief Sketch of the Mode of Treatment of Lunatics in Different Asylums in this Country and in England, with Illustrations, Including a Copy of Hogarth's Celebrated Painting of a Scene in Old Bedlam, in London, 1635 -- 1903 - Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, by Daniel Paul Schreber.
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1908 - A Mind That Found Itself, by Clifford Beers -- 1909 - The Maniac: A Realistic Study of Madness from the Maniac's Point of View, by E. Thelmar -- 1910 - Legally Dead, Experiences During Seventeen Weeks -- Detention in a Private Asylum, by Marcia Hamilcar -- 1918, 1919 - The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky -- 1938 - The Witnesses, by Thomas Hennell -- 1944 - Brainstorm, by Carlton Brown -- 1945 - I Question, Anonymous -- 1946 - The Snake Pit, by Mary Jane Ward -- 1952 - Wisdom Madness and Folly, by John Custance -- 1955 - Voices Calling, by Lisa Wiley -- 1964 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by Joanne Greenberg -- 1965 - Beyond All Reason, by Morag Coate -- 1975 - The Eden Express, by Mark Vonnegut -- 1976 - Insanity Inside Out, by Kenneth Donaldson -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Ancient and Medieval Visions of Madness -- Appendix II: Contemporary Models of Madness -- Bibliography.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8229-3444-2
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biographies.
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History
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Biographies
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Biography
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Electronic books.
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