I blog on Psychology Today on Victorian mental health, here
My latest post is on wives who had sane husbands certified as lunatics.
Other posts consider * the earI blog on Psychology Today on Victorian mental health, here
My latest post is on wives who had sane husbands certified as lunatics.
Other posts consider * the earliest days of Broadmoor Hospital/Asylum for the Criminally Insane; * Charlotte Bronte and Bertha Mason; * Wilkie Collins’s novel The Woman in White (1860); * the UK’s past and current mistreatment of the mentally ill; * how religious enthusiasm could lead to an accusation of lunacy; * and the Victorian diagnosis ‘monomania�....more