Esquirol Patient, Straitjacket, 1838
Entitled: "Idiot" A black man is sitting in a chair, he is wearing a gown (straitjacket) with the end of each sleeve tied to the opposite side of the chair. Lithograph appeared in "Des maladies mentales considerees sous les rapports medicale, hygienique et medico-legal" by Ìätienne Esquirol. Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity. In modern usage, insanity is most commonly encountered as an informal unscientific term denoting mental instability, or in the narrow legal context of the insanity defense. In the medical profession the term is now avoided in favor of diagnoses of specific mental disorders; the presence of delusions or hallucinations is broadly referred to as psychosis. When discussing mental illness in general terms, "psychopathology" is considered a preferred descriptor.
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