Nellie Bly's "Ten Days in a Mad-House"

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Maria Popova celebrates the Victorian journalist's New York World series on mental health care, which she investigated first-hand by feigning insanity and getting committed to an asylum: "The further down the rabbit hole of mental health care Bly tumbled, as she successfully fooled the authorities into pronouncing her insane, the more keenly aware she became of the degree of darkness that enveloped those 'poor unfortunates' who entered the system against their will."

May 18, 2014

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