Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Excerpt from The Rights of the Insane, in Hospitals I may state here that I realize how next to impossible it is for those of us who are entrusted With the care of hospitals for the insane to be unbiased in the consideration of ques tions involving hospital inmates and their management, and though in everything else experience is consulted and de ferred to, yet, in view of the wide-spread skepticism in regard to the Wisdom of the present methods of caring for the insane, and the lessening faith in the reliability of expert opinion, it seems to me desirable that we should, for the purposes of this inquiry, forego the vantage-ground which, even if not accorded, eminent dignity and the pride of Opinion is so apt to arrogate to itself; that for the nonce we shall be silent in regard to the Propositions laid down by our Association thirty years ago, which, like the Koran, have been supposed to contain nothing superfluous and to omit nothing essential; that we shall try to forget even that we are hospital superintendents, and ask, Who is this insane man? Just as if we had never had him under our control; and having found him, and decided that his disease requires for its treatment hospital care and restraint, put ourselves in his place and see how we should like it. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them like wise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An urgent exposéf the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.