This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond

by Mike Jay (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2016

  $21.54

  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.