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[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You might enjoy the book "Mad in America." I'm just finishing it now, and it's got basically every variation on that theme. It's the history of how we in the US have treated our "insane." It's a fucking parade of horrors, but wonderfully researched and extremely damning.