Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghHalf lecture, half nightmare, this high-precision performance blurs the line between medic and patient in a Victorian asylum for mentally ill women In 19th-century France, the Salpêtrière hospital was an institution for mentally ill women. Safe to say the definition of mental illness was not the same as it is today. Inmates could end up being committed for anything from promiscuity t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AM on August 1, 2025