1st 2016 256pp Thames & Hudson hardback. Illustrated throughout. Near fine.
 
Signed by author on title page. Includes a bookmark and catalogue of the Bedlam exhibition at the Wellcome Institute in London.
 
This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.