A Social History of Madness

Many men and women who are labeled mad or schizophrenic reveal startling insight into their own condition while condemning the callousness of a society that shuns them. Here, in relating the stories of some two dozen people who endured severe mental illness, ``Porter has produced a disturbing and profound study of the way we treat the mentally ill and how the insane view the `normal' world,'' commented PW. (Sept.)