The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness by Mike Jay
The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness

Mike Jay

The Air Loom Gang: The Strange and True Story of James Tilly Matthews and His Visionary Madness

Mike Jay

320 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history psychology dark fast-paced
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Confined in Bedlam in 1797 as an incurable lunatic, James Tilly Matthews is one of the most bizarre case studies in the annals of psychiatry. Often cited as the first thorough case study of what we would today call paranoid schizophrenia, Matthews...

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