Reviews tagging 'Schizophrenia/Psychosis '

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

6 reviews

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

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

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

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

shereadytoread's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad

5.0

This was such an engrossing read. As someone with family a small drive from Crownville, MD, I've been aware of the existence of Crownville but not the history until now. Once I started reading this, I couldn't put it down. I finished this in less than 24 hours. We tend to think of the past in such a distant way. Crownsville State Hospital closed during my lifetime (probably the lifetime of anyone reading this as well). Interviews with family members of former patients and with former employees, along with historical archives saved at the last minute have culminated in this amazing work. 

It not only tells the history of the asylum but also discusses the history of mental health treatment, institutions and the continued failures of both asylums and community care. It discussed the criminalization of mental health policies and the increased carceral response to poor and mentally ill community members. Something that strikes me most was a portion in which someone interviewed discussed they were running out of time to tell this story as those who lived it were passing away. How much of our lives and history are loss because there is no one to carry the story? What stories are we carrying? I expect that this is a read I will revisit in the futures. 

Disclaimer: I received a free finished copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault