My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum / By a Sane Patient

A first-person account of being certified insane and confined in a private psychiatric institution, recounting delirium, physical prostration, and the routines of care that combined comforts with intrusive surveillance. The narrator describes medical treatments, enforced leisure and company, and the psychological effects of being labeled and watched. He critiques the legal and medical procedures that enable wrongful detention, reflects on the difficulties of reintegration and social stigma after release, and urges reform while drawing lessons about human vulnerability, resilience, and the need for caution in judging mental disturbance.