The Face of Madness - The Origin of Psychiatric Photography

Echo Point Books, 2014. Reprint of original book from 1976. 

Condition: Like new.

ISBN: 978-1-62654-923-4

Pioneering medical photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Hugh W. Diamond's photographs are eloquent portraits of the insane-the melancholy, the depressed, the deranged, the alcoholic, whom he cared for at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum.

Diamond's paper "On the Application of Photography to the Physiognomic and Mental Phenomena of Insanity," is included in this printing. This discourse discloses three functions of photography which are still relevant to the practice of psychiatry today: Photography can record the appearance of the mentally ill for study; it can be used for treatment through the presentation of an accurate self-image; and it can record the visages of patients to facilitate identification in case of later readmission.