Women of the Asylum
Psychiatric hospital care
Women, history, modern period, 1600-
Psychiatric hospital patients
Mentally ill women
Women, mental health
Psychiatric Hospitals
Psychiatry
Mental Disorders
Sources
Women
Social conditions
Psychology
Biography
History
Jeffrey Geller and Maxine Harris have amassed twenty-six first person accounts of women who were placed in mental institutions against their will, often by male family members for holding views or behaving in ways that deviated from the norms of their day. Taken as a whole, these pieces offer a fasc…
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