Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2024

M ark Freeman is a renowned author and a pioneering voice in the emerging field of the psychological humanities. He serves as Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. His body of work, including the critically acclaimed Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (Routledge, 2023), offers a profound reimagining of psychology, interweaving it with the arts and humanities to better under

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2024

From Mother Jones : “In March 1911, the segregated Crownsville asylum opened outside Baltimore, Maryland, admitting only Black patients. It was the first to house Black people in the state, but when they arrived, their main role wasn’t to get support—it was to build the asylum. The combination of ableism and sanism —harmful beliefs about the nature and treatment of ‘mental illness’—with anti-Black racism in the Jim Crow South all but ensured that Black patients were treated

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