Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

Andrew Scull

376 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
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Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental illnesses were the product of c...

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