By Jan Wallcraft
Madness has been stigmatized for centuries. The madhouses and asylums of yore simply removed the "mad" from society, often permanently. Nathaniel Lee, a 17th-century English playwright who spent five years in the notorious Bedlam asylum, said: "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me."
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