Wrongful confinement

Author: W.A.F. Browne,

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Keywords: monomania, classification, delusion, lunatics, maniac, institution, national character.

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Introduction

This excerpt is taken from W.A.F. Browne’s classic text on the history of insanity. It describes the characteristics of, and distinctions between, some of the myriad types of monomania in Victorian psychological thought. Browne’s description is part of a wider obsession with classification, nosological categorization and taxonomy. This excerpt is thus central to an understanding of psychological medicine, deviance and transgression in Victorian society

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