‘Am I mad?’: the Windham case and Victorian resistance to psychiatry
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DOI: 10.1177/0957154x19867059
Abstract: This article revisits the notorious trial of William Windham, a wealthy young man accused of lunacy. The trial in 1861–2 saw the country’s foremost experts on psychological medicine very publicly debate the concepts, symptoms and… read more here.
Keywords: psychiatry mad; psychiatry; mad windham; resistance psychiatry ... See more keywords