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(More customer reviews)I have read this book about a couple of times. The book gives fascinating account of psychiatric patients in the Victorian Era.You get a nostalgic feeling as you read case by case, the real illnessess of real patients with stark similarities to todays psychiatric patients.The delusions and hallucinations have a victorian feel to them too!. What I feel is if these patients were present in the current days, life for them would have been a lot more different ,with todays cutting edge psychiatric drugs and therapy and social and occupational rehabilitation. I give 5 stars out of 5 for this book .A must read for all psychiatrists and anyone in mental health profession.
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Thousands of unique human stories lie within the historic records of Bethlem Hospital, an institution just outside London dedicated to the treatment - and cure - of mental illness since medieval times. Around sixty of these stories are told in this book, accompanied by beautiful, moving photographs taken over the course of a decade near the end of the Victorian era. They speak eloquently of experiences of distress and recovery, of life within and outside hospital walls, and of contemporary attitudes and therapeutic approaches. Their voices deserve to be heard.
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