![]() The Milledgeville asylum opened in December 1842 and 100 years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world, peaking with over 13,000 patients. ![]() In her new book, Administrations of Lunacy, author and social activist Mab Segrest has dug deep into the chilling history of the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum – otherwise known as “Milledgeville” for its location – to discover how modern psychiatric practice was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. ADMINISTRATIONS OF LUNACY: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum ![]()
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