Crazy People. Lunatics, and Complete Idiots
Title | Crazy People. Lunatics, and Complete Idiots PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Spears |
Publisher | James M. SPears |
Pages | 103 |
Release | 2019-03-31 |
Genre | Humor |
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The funniest stories on the face of the Earth, told in detail as they happened will keep you laughing all day long.
Ignorant Lunatics
Title | Ignorant Lunatics PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Spears |
Publisher | James M. SPears |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2015-10-29 |
Genre | Humor |
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Sixteen of the funniest stories you could ever imagine in your wildest dreams.
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots
Title | Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Burtinshaw |
Publisher | Casemate Publishers |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2017-04-30 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1473879051 |
“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies
Crazy
Title | Crazy PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Earley |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2007-04-03 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780425213896 |
“A magnificent gift to those of us who love someone who has a mental illness…Earley has used his considerable skills to meticulously research why the mental health system is so profoundly broken.”—Bebe Moore Campbell, author of 72 Hour Hold Former Washington Post reporter Pete Earley had written extensively about the criminal justice system. But it was only when his own son—in the throes of a manic episode—broke into a neighbor's house that he learned what happens to mentally ill people who break a law. This is the Earley family's compelling story, a troubling look at bureaucratic apathy and the countless thousands who suffer confinement instead of care, brutal conditions instead of treatment, in the “revolving doors” between hospital and jail. With mass deinstitutionalization, large numbers of state mental patients are homeless or in jail-an experience little better than the horrors of a century ago. Earley takes us directly into that experience—and into that of a father and award-winning journalist trying to fight for a better way.
Self Righteous Loud Mouth Idiots Actin' Like No Listenin Headstrong Jerks
Title | Self Righteous Loud Mouth Idiots Actin' Like No Listenin Headstrong Jerks PDF eBook |
Author | James M. Spears |
Publisher | James M. SPears |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 2014-01-06 |
Genre | Humor |
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These twelve stories filled with humor, laughter, and satire will keep you laughing for hours on end.
Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois
Title | Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois. Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Public welfare |
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Annual Report
Title | Annual Report PDF eBook |
Author | Illinois. Board of Administration |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Charities |
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Vol. 2 includes biennial reports of the State Charitable Institutions.