For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

— Margaret Atwood Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For (1997)

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