Manual of Lunacy: A Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane in the Public and Private Asylums of Great Britain,

by Lyttelton Forbes Winslow

A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father, Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent much of his own medical career attempting to show the courts that crime and alcoholism were linked to mental illness, though he later gained notoriety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108063497
• ISBN13: 9781108063494
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"