Dirk Wittenborn Quotes:
Ocupation: Screenwriter
Life: b. 1952
Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!
topic: Reading, Book, Medicine, Shrinks, Mistreatment
