The madhouse often figures prominently in popular conceptions of
the nineteenth century, yet little is known about the realities of
private institutions. In Psychiatry for the Rich, Charlotte
MacKenzie examines the history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex
to explore the social history of madness and the impact of politics
and popular opinion. She details the backgrounds of the patients,
their own descriptions of the asylum as well as changes in the
institution through the lunacy reforms and developments in medical
theory. Challenging many of the accepted views of the Victorian
asylum, Money, Medicine and Madness is the most revealing account
of the trade in lunacy in the nineteenth century.
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