In Search of Madness: A Psychiatrist's Travels Through the History of Mental Illness

by Brendan Kelly

Book Overview

Who is 'mad'? Who is not? And who decides?

In this fascinating new exploration of mental illness, Professor Brendan Kelly examines 'madness' in history and how we have responded to it over the centuries.

We travel from the psychiatric institutions of India to Victorian scientific studies of the brain. We discover the beginnings of formal asylum care and witness the experimental 'therapies' of the cavernous psychiatric hospitals of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0717193780
• ISBN13: 9780717193783
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Gill Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"