Books Details
Author : Mab Segrest Pages : pages Publisher : Dreamscape Media, LLC Language :
eng ISBN-10 : B07ZHJFWPG ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the
largest mental institution in the worldToday, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are
located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine
disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of
research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical
roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial
ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose
influences extend into our troubled present.In December 1841, the Georgia State
Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded. A hundred years later, it had
become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients.
'ADMINISTRATIONS OF LUANCY' tells the story of this iconic and infamous southern
institution, a history that was all but erased from popular memory and within the
psychiatric
