A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine by Mike Jay

A Visionary Madness: The Case of James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine

Mike Jay with Oliver Sacks

288 pages • first pub 2003 (view editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology dark fast-paced
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Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews is one of the most bizarre case studies in the annals of psychiatry. Often cited as the first thorough case study of what we would today call paranoid schizophrenia, Matthews...

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