Bedlam: the asylum and beyond

Wellcome Collection 15 September 2016 – 15 January 2017 The outside is a perfect mockery to the inside.  —Thomas Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical (1700) The world is but a great Bedlam, where those that are more mad, lock up those who are less —Thomas Tryon (1689) Our mental health has many dimensions: medical, psychological, social, …