Personified, this day was a disheveled maniac, a Humpty Dumpty in streaming cheesecloth toga, bawling fresh tidings from Bedlam down the ... Psychologically, the book is a faultless exposition ...

On May 6, 1946, Life magazine published "Bedlam 1946," an exposé of two state hospitals: Pennsylvania's Byberry and Ohio's Cleveland State. To a country shaken by recent revelations of Nazi ...