If you are really interested in this subject (how western societies treat the "insane" as the societies themselves evolve) I would recommend Michel Foucault's "

If you are really interested in this subject (how western societies treat the "insane" as the societies themselves evolve) I would recommend Michel Foucault's "Madness and Civilization", more recently published as "History of Madness". It's a very long book and I must confess I only got through about two thirds of it, but it certainly opened my eyes into how definitions of what it meant to be "sane" have changed over time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization