Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

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

13 reviews

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

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

carrie_wallace's review

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Racism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Medical trauma

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark informative

3.5

A comprehensive look at the history of Crownsville Hospital and, to a lesser degree, about the ways that the white-dominated fields of law and psychology have led to a direct line between enslavement to mental health institutionalization to mass incarceration that we see today. Hylton does an admirable job at making a comprehensive story around this place given that so many of the records of Crownsville were destroyed by negligence and an active desire to keep some of the Crownsville history secret. There were times that I did not love the way that the book was structured, but the content is important enough that that's easily overlooked. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

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

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