This Way Madness Lies :The Asylum and Beyond

4.06 ( 89 Ratings by Goodreads)
This Way Madness Lies

This Way Madness Lies :The Asylum and Beyond

(Author)
4.06 (89 Ratings by Goodreads)
hardback
Published: 15 September, 2016
Standard worldwide delivery by Tue, July 14 - Fri, July 17
Order within 0
Condition: NEW
$29.68
RRP $33.32
You save $3.65 (11%)
Price includes shipping
Available 2 in stock
- +
Add to basket Wishlist This
FREE Returns within 30 days
More Details

Popular Books by Mike Jay

View All Books by Mike Jay
Psychonauts
Psychonauts
Mike Jay
$20.33
New
Add to basket
A Season to Remember 1989/90
A Season to Remember 1989/90
Mike Jay
$21.72
New
Add to basket
Geoff Bradford
Geoff Bradford
Mike Jay
$8.17 $21.36
Used
Add to basket
High Society
High Society
Mike Jay
$15.11 $17.35
New
Add to basket
Bore Hole
Bore Hole
Mike Jay
$37.46
New
Add to basket
Mescaline
Mescaline
Mike Jay
$21.29
New
Add to basket
Free Radicals
Free Radicals
Mike Jay
$20.73
New
Add to basket
The Underworld of the East
The Underworld of the East
Mike Jay
$17.23 $20.02
New
Add to basket
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction
Mike Jay
$29.04
New
Add to basket
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard
Mike Jay
$16.32 $17.35
New
Add to basket

Description

Is mental illness – or madness – at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain. Moving and sometimes provocative illustrations and photographs, sourced from the Wellcome Collection's extensive archives and the archives of mental institutions in Europe and the U.S., illuminate and reinforce the compelling narrative, while extensive ‘gallery’ sections present revealing and thought-provoking artworks by asylum patients and other artists from each era of the institution and beyond.
See more

More Details

Type Book
ISBN13 9780500518977
ISBN10 0500518971
Number Of Pages 256
Item Weight 1200 g
Publisher / Reseller Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format hardback
See More +

Media Reviews

'A fascinating tour d’horizon' - Guardian
'Fascinating and lavishly illustrated' - Wall Street Journal
'Superb…the text exhibits all the lucidity you could wish for when struggling to apprehend this most disturbing and problematic of subjects' - Will Self, The London Review of Books
'Immaculately researched … essential reading' - The Psychologist

Show more

GoodReads Reviews

Author's Bio

Mike Jay has written widely on the cultural history of science, medicine and the mind. His books include The Influencing Machine, The Story of James Tilly Matthews and his Confinement in Eighteenth-century Bedlam and High Society: Mind-altering Drugs in History and Culture. He reviews regularly for The London Review of Books and The Wall Street Journal. This Way Madness Lies was written in conjunction with the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', which he co-curated for the Wellcome Collection in London. He is a research affiliate of the Health Humanities Centre at University College London and a trustee of the Bethlem Art and History Collection.

Show more