Illustrations of Madness

by Roy Porter

John Haslam's "Illustrations of Madness" , written in 1810, occupies a special place in psychiatric history, for it was the first book-length account of one single psychiatric case written by a British psychiatrist.

144 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1988

About the author

Roy's books cover several fields: the history of geology, London, 18th-Century British ideas and society, medicine, madness, quackery, patients and practitioners, literature and art, on which subjects (and others) he published over 200 books are articles.

List of works can be found @ wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Porter )