Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

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

14 reviews

megnut's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Found this to be a powerful way to look at the history of how mental health and race has intersected... from the domination of staff positions by white workers to the transiting from slums to prisons to how mental illness and trauma were so intertwined. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

caidyn's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, and Forced institutionalization

evawondergem's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and War

shannonreads96's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Mental illness, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicide and Police brutality