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

Peschier, Diana (Author)

Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

ISBN: 9781788318075

Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 224

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Patients Physicians; doctors Medicalization Medicine and gender Femininity Mental disorders and diseases Psychiatric hospitals Psychiatry Medicine and society 19th century Great Britain

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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