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Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals) (Hardcover)
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Illustrations of Madness (Psychology Revivals) (Hardcover)
Series: Psychology Revivals
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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. Originally
published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History
of Psychiatry series, Roy Porter's Introduction to this facsimile
reprint of an historic book goes beyond Haslam's text to reveal the
extraordinary psychiatric politics surrounding Matthew's
confinement and the court case it produced, leading up to Haslam's
dismissal from his post. Still relevant today, Haslam's account can
be used as material upon which to base a modern diagnosis of
Matthew's disorder.
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