Megga Nurma W’s Reviews > Alias Grace > Status Update

The difference between Dr. Bannerling’s examination and Dr. Simon Jordan’s, highlights the development of more modern ideas about mental health, which were still uncommon in Canada at that time. Dr. Bannerling represents the older and more brutal system of mental medicine. He treats Grace harshly and views her more as a criminal or a dangerous object than as a human being with a complex inner life.