Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

14 reviews

hcgambrell's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Drug abuse

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Classism

lisettemarie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Abortion

elliv's review

dark funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Police brutality, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

stardewrally's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

This was excellently researched and I deeply appreciated both former patient and former staff perspectives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement, Death, and Forced institutionalization

amelrose's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

amachonis's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lizzie_winn's review

dark fast-paced

5.0

This was ambitious in scope and it did not disappoint! Using oral histories and her own experiences as well as archival sources, Hylton shows how Black Americans with mental health challenges or struggles with poverty or encounters with the police or who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time where institutionalized and pushed to the margins of society. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Classism

moonytoast's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

a must read for those interested in psychology, the history of racialized treatment in the pyschology field and its impact on the current relationship of black people to the mental health system, the connection between mental institutions and the carceral system, and the impact of places like crownsville on everyone who moved through that place. EVERY psychology department at PWIs need to have this book on their curriculum for students to read!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

amyjo25's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Racism

Moderate: Suicide