This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum And Beyond

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.

• | By (Author): Mike Jay
• | Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0500518971
• | ISBN-13: 9780500518977