1st Edition

Illustrations of Madness

By John Haslam, Roy Porter Copyright 1988
158 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

John Haslam’s Illustrations of Madness , written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist. John Haslam, apothecary to London’s Bethlem Hospital, and a leading psychiatrist of the early-nineteenth century, details the case of James Tilly Matthews, who had been a patient in the... Read more

Preface.  Introduction by Roy Porter.  Illustrations of Madness by John Haslam.

Biography

John Haslam, Roy Porter