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The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital . Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
Insanity is generally no defense in a civil lawsuit, but an insane plaintiff can toll the statute of limitations for filing a suit until gaining sanity, or until a statute of repose has run. Feigning Feigned insanity is the simulation of mental illness in order to deceive.
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (French: Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique, 1961) [i] is an examination by Michel Foucault of the evolution of the meaning of madness in the cultures and laws, politics, philosophy, and medicine of Europe—from the Middle Ages until the end of the 18th century—and a critique of the idea of ...
Image credits: DominionKnight All three etiquette experts agree that eavesdropping is impolite. "Eavesdropping crosses a fundamental boundary of respect. In my years of teaching etiquette, I've ...
According to June McDaniel and other scholars, divine madness is found in the history and practices of many cultures and may reflect religious ecstasy or expression of divine love. [3] Plato in his Phaedrus and his ideas on theia mania , the Hasidic Jews , Eastern Orthodoxy , Western Christianity , Sufism along with Indian religions all bear ...
Mackay notes that many of these cases were initiated as a way of settling scores among neighbors or associates, and that extremely low standards of evidence were applied to most of these trials. Mackay claims that "thousands upon thousands" of people were executed as witches over two and a half centuries, with the largest numbers killed in Germany.
Image credits: anon #9. I thought all parents were on their best behavior and pretending to be good people in public and that when they got home they were all angry and violent.
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (996–1021), called the Mad Caliph in Western literature; Odo I, Count of Vermandois, Count of Vermanois from 1080 to 1085, called "the Insane" George III (1738–1820), King of Great Britain and of Ireland, called the Mad King; Mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886)