Hearing Voices

The History of Psychiatry in Ireland. A History of Psychiatry in Ireland is a colossal study on the history of psychiatry, representing the most comprehensive perspectives on medical developments and practices and their social and political effects from the Middle Ages onwards. The birth of psychiatry in Ireland and its far-reaching effects on such disparate matters as Gleann na nGealt and Brehon Law are some indication of the almost impenetrably vast, often nebulous effects of psychiatry on Irish society. Beyond the early modern era, Jonathan Swift and the foundation of St Patricks Hospital, there came the growth of the asylums,