Jaya Kohol’s Reviews > Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason > Status Update

Okay so I see how he develops the idea of modern treatments through psychiatry I see it I see it now okay I get it

He’s kinda losing me here with all this talk about “black bile” and “the humors” and “vapors” and how hysteria is a disease of the uterus…..I know it’s all what medicine thought mental illness was at the time but I feel like his argument falls flat when he relies on outdated methodology when he could be arguing a much more interesting historically relevant point

Solid points so far.