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Mental illness: symptom of a broken world
Tuesday, 9 December, 2025
In the Middle Ages, madmen, or fools, were made to wear costumes: a bell-trimmed hood and donkey ears. Such simple-minded people, jesters and moralisers, entertained the royal court. Eventually these figures were cast out to the margins of society, until the taboo surrounding mental illness began slowly to crumble. ‘One can judge how civilised a country is by looking at the way in which the mentally ill are treated,' the Annales médico-psychologiques journal stated as early as 1848. If the (…) - 2025/12 / Dossier
