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Truthfulness With The Insane
Now as with the emaciated body, so with the deranged mind. No mind can be in a healthy condition that feeds upon falsehood. It must, of course, be diseased and hastening to decay. What it needs is something different and opposite to that which it has fed upon, and that something is TRUTH....
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Title: Truthfulness With The Insane
Creator: n/a
Date: February 1852
Format: Article
Publication: The Opal
Source: New York State Library
Control no.: 051 O612 1852
Location: vol.2, no.2, pp.33-35
Keywords: Asylums; Doctors; Health & Medicine; Insanity; Institutions; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; New York; New York State Lunatic Asylum; Psychiatric Disability; Treatments Therapies Cures
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations