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

Asylum Ways of Seeing uncovers a patient culture within twentieth-century American psychiatric hospitals that did not just imbibe ideas from the outside world, but generated ones of their own. In illuminating seemingly resigned patients in these settings, it makes a call to reconsider the philosophical possibilities within resignation.

Author(s): Heather Murray
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2022-01-04
Pages: 272
Categories: History