She lets out a sigh and has a good cry, I tell her to release her feelings one at a time,” Cecelia, 30, wrote in a poem that ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Among leading thinkers of this period, G. Stanley Hall was convinced that early treatment might reduce both the severity and reoccurrence of mental illness. Adolph Meyerwas probably the single ...