Book ID: CBB291963494

Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum (2019)

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Peschier, Diana (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 224
Language: English

How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves.

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Review Dan Degerman (2021) Review of "Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum". History of Psychiatry (pp. 115-116). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Andrews, Jonathan
Artvinli, Fatih
Coleborne, Catharine
Getz, Lynne M.
Hilton, Claire
Jones, Edgar
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Mefisto: Rivista di medicina, filosofia, storia
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
French Historical Studies
Journal of American Culture
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Scrimgeour Yorkshire
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Patients
Medicine and society
Medicine and gender
People
Brierre de Boismont, Alexandre-Jacques-François
Castro, Avram de
Frame, James
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Scotland
England
Ontario (Canada)
Paris (France)
North Carolina (U.S.)
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
Maudsley Hospital (England)
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