Woman suffering from acute melancholia. Image: Wellcome Foundation via Europeana (CC BY) Mania of suspicion, monomania of pride — obsolete diagnoses that would be seen as part of wider mental illnesses today. The men and women in these portraits became the labels themselves, rather than people first. Still, by the 1800s, psychiatry was becoming established as a medical speciality and treatments were considered more humane, with a basis in clinical science. The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asy...
Woman suffering from acute melancholia. Image: Wellcome Foundation via Europeana (CC BY) Mania of suspicion, monomania of pride — obsolete diagnoses that would be seen as part of wider mental illnesses today. The men and women in these portraits became the labels themselves, rather than people first. Still, by the 1800s, psychiatry was becoming established as a medical speciality and treatments were considered more humane, with a basis in clinical science. The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asy...
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