Past shows how to treat mental illness.
Times Higher Education Supplement, May 26, p. 35. Research by a Scottish historian could help psychologists and psychiatrists to gain a better understanding of mental illness. He discovered identifiable conditions such as schizophrenia and manic depression, as well as a stalker, and a woman who wanted a doctor to remove a healthy leg, harbingers of current controversial incidents. This volume draws upon a wide range of contemporary sources, notably asylum documents, and civil and criminal court records, to present insights into the issues around madness, including the written and spoken words of sufferers themselves, and the vocabulary associated with insanity. The links between madness and a range of other issues are explored including madness, gender, social status, religion and witchcraft, in addition to the attributed causes of derangement such as heredity and alcohol abuse.