Ten days in a mad house

By Nellie Bly

Subjects: Commitment and detention, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Social Services & Welfare, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Mentally ill, Social Security, New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, POLITICAL SCIENCE, New York (N.Y.)., Psychiatric hospitals, Public Policy

Description: "This is Bly's truly disturbing account (and exposé) of a mental asylum to which Bly was committed after feigning insanity. Including graphic depictions as to the treatment of mental patients and their unsanitary surroundings, Bly's controversial 1887 exposé reveals the scandal and brutality of mental health in the nineteenth century and the ease with which professionals were prepared to accept and treat mental "disorders.""--Page 4 of cover.