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Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum 1792-1917 (The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine)
Psychiatry for the Rich A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum 17921917 - The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine Author:Charlotte MacKenzie Psychiatry for the Rich reconstructs middle and upper class attitudes to mental disorder, certification and confinement, as well as their changing evaluation of care. Through a detailed history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex, Charlotte MacKenzie explores the consumer revolution which stimulated the proliferation of madhouses.MacKenzie incl... more »udes accounts of patients' own experiences at Ticehurst and discusses the changing developments at the asylum through the course of the nineteenth century amidst changes in therapeutic regimen and calls for lunacy reform. Psychiatry for the Rich is the most revealing of accounts of the trade in lunacy in the nineteenth century.« less