Ten Days in a Mad-House

By Nellie Bly

Subjects: Psychiatry - general & miscellaneous, Sanitarium, Internal medicine, New York State, Prison, Mental Health Institution, Psychology - history, Mental health services & personnel, Blackwell's Island, Medical ethics, Asylum, Expose, Civil rights - general, Court, New York (N.Y.). Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island, Psychopathology - general & miscellaneous, Mental Health, Hospital, Judge, New York. Penitentiary, Blackwell's Island

Description: In 1887, Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, also known as Nellie Bly, published an expose about New York's infamous mental health institution on Blackwell's Island after having herself intentionally committed undercover. The expose forever changed the way the mental health would be seen in history and began a social movement to advocate for better care throughout the nation.