Insanity

Local references:

• Some famous people who suffered from mental illnesses.
• On the common misconceptions of insanity.
• On the varying degrees of mental illness.
• The difference between Schizophrenia and Multiple Personality Disorder
• Some trivia on 'Mad as a Hatter'

Links to other pages on Insanity

• A documentary about an asylum for the insane.
• An experiment done by researchers in an asylum which shows just how difficult it is to objectively verify insanity.
• A history of the insanity legal defense, and an analysis of the defense.
• A list of phobias.
• The National Institute of Mental Health
• The Stanford Prison Experiment and Milgram's obedience experiment, two famous psychology experiments which prove that we really are all sheep.
• Yahoo!'s selections on Mental Health
• The Yellow Wall-Paper site, dedicated to the story of madness by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, contains a full exploration of the meaning of the story, as well as an online copy of the story.