Section I: The First Victim - James Tilly Matthews
The birth of schizophrenia wasn't a medical breakthrough. It was an act of institutional violence.
In 1797, James Tilly Matthews, a tea merchant and political activist, was imprisoned in Bedlam Asylum. His real crime? Not madness. Not delusion. But the threat of exposure. Matthews had stumbled upon someth…
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