If so many men in whom we suppose judgment are imprisoned by the insane, who tells us that the alienated is not the alienist?"
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Psychology student. I like philosophy and things that try to explain the human behavior
The book tells the story of Dr. Bacamarte, an alienist (the designation of psychiatrist at the time), who creates the Green House, a place to carry out unprecedented studies on the human mind, but ends up getting lost in his own madness.
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