• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals)

Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals)

Paperback

Series: Psychology Revivals

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 0415712505
ISBN13: 9780415712507
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 15 2015
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

John Haslam's Illustrations of Madness, written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist. John Haslam, apothecary to London's Bethlem Hospital, and a leading psychiatrist of the early-nineteenth century, details the case of James Tilly Matthews, who had been a patient in the hospital for some ten years. Matthews claimed he was sane, as did his friends and certain doctors. Haslam, on behalf of the Bethlem authorities, contended he was insane, and attempted to demonstrate this by presenting a detailed account of Matthew's own delusional system, as far as possible in Matthew's own words.

Also from

Haslam, John

Also in

Mental Health