Ten days in a mad house

By Nellie Bly

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

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.