This 1856 work, advocating the abolition of mechanical restraints in treating mentally ill patients, is a key text of asylum reform.

This lecture delivered in 1838 promotes a more humane and compassionate approach to the treatment of the mentally ill in asylums. It is a fascinating historical

In the late 1970s, Barbara Taylor, then an acclaimed young historian, began to suffer from severe anxiety. In the years that followed, Taylor's world contracted