Reviews tagging 'Death'

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

4 reviews

lizzie_winn's review

dark fast-paced

5.0

This was ambitious in scope and it did not disappoint! Using oral histories and her own experiences as well as archival sources, Hylton shows how Black Americans with mental health challenges or struggles with poverty or encounters with the police or who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time where institutionalized and pushed to the margins of society. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexism, Sexual assault, Classism, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Slavery, and Violence

moonytoast's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

a must read for those interested in psychology, the history of racialized treatment in the pyschology field and its impact on the current relationship of black people to the mental health system, the connection between mental institutions and the carceral system, and the impact of places like crownsville on everyone who moved through that place. EVERY psychology department at PWIs need to have this book on their curriculum for students to read!!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Racism, and Suicide

evawondergem's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Rape, Child death, War, Violence, Sexual violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Racial slurs, Confinement, and Death

ktdakotareads's review

dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Racism, Grief, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Torture