Sentence examples for insane patients from inspiring English sources

Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, who did pioneering work in this field among the insane patients of the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, was nonetheless aware of the artistic importance of his photographs, even devoting two books to the subjects of "Demoniacs in Art" and "Deformities and Sickness in Art".

For many years he laboured among the insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital, advocating humane treatment for them on the ground that mental disorders were as subject to healing arts as physical ones; indeed, he held that insanity often proceeded from physical causes, an idea that was a long step forward from the old notion that lunatics are possessed by devils.

Government authorities, backed by prominent physicians, justified forced feeding by citing its successful use with insane patients in asylums.

On October 3 the murder by an insane patient of a leading republican figure, the distinguished psychiatrist Miguel Bombarda, offered the pretext for a rising that had already been organized.

She was not sentenced, but was ordered by the Finnish National Board of Medico-Legal Affairs to stay in the state mental hospital as a criminally insane patient.

A few decades later, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin began a series of careful observations utilizing notecards to longitudinally assess symptoms and outcomes in insane hospitalized patients.

These are stories about insane-asylum patients, vagabonds, and young people trapped in dead-end jobs and loveless relationships.

"It's a financial labor of love," he said during a recent interview at his Midtown office, under the gaze of John Barrymore as the lead in "Don Juan" in 1926 and as a despairing insane asylum patient in "A Bill of Divorcement," from 1932.

Taken from Greek words meaning "split" and "mind," the term schizophrenia dates back to the inhumane treatment of psychotic patients in "insane asylums" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and still carries these unfortunate connotations.

The setting is a British insane asylum whose troubled patients on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1899 occupy a once-mannerly estate that has slipped into very ill-mannered debauchery and decay.

And when the suffragettes in prison went on hunger strikes to protest that they were political prisoners and not ordinary criminal prisoners, the men in power shoved feeding tubes down their throats and force-fed them the way patients in insane asylums were force-fed when they refused to eat.