Ten days in a mad house
By: by Nellie Bly
Publisher: Empire Books
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9781619492585
Subjects: Mentally ill; Commitment and detention; Psychiatric hospitals
Other titles: 10 days in a mad house
Description: "This is Bly's truly disturbing account (and exposé) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly's controversial 1887 exposé reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental "disorders.""--Page 4 of cover.