Byron’s Letters

May 2, 2024 | rb.gy | Kay Redfield Jamison |Byron’s Letters |J.G. Ballard |Abigail Gosselin

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The reader will excuse my frequent references to the poets for facts to illustrate the history of madness. They view the human mind in all its operations, whether natural or morbid, with a microscopic eye; and hence many things arrest their attention, which would escape the notice of physicians.

May 2, 2024 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Kay Redfield Jamison |Byron’s Letters |J.G. Ballard |Abigail Gosselin

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. The reader will excuse my frequent references to the poets for facts to illustrate the history of madness. They view the human mind in all its operations, whether natural or morbid, with a microscopic eye; and hence many things arrest their attention, which would escape the notice of physicians.

Nov 20, 2023 | amacad.org | Byron’s Letters

The reader will excuse my frequent references to the poets for facts to illustrate the history of madness. They view the human mind in all its operations, whether natural or morbid, with a microscopic eye; and hence many things arrest their attention, which would escape the notice of physicians. —Benjamin Rush, Diseases of the Mind (1812)1Disorders of mood, depression, and bipolar illness are common, painful, and destructive.