Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

by Heather Murray

Asylum Ways of Seeing is a cultural and intellectual history of people with mental illnesses in the twentieth-century United States. While acknowledging the fraught, and often violent, histories of American psychiatric hospitals, Heather Murray also suggests that it is in these hospitals that patients became more intense observers: they gave more conscious consideration to institutional and broader kinds of citizenship, to the nature and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812253574
• ISBN13: 9780812253573
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"