insanity
acquittals of women on grounds of, 115
affects on family, 42, 44-7, 81-2, 102, 111, 116, 119, 123, 204, 311
‘alienation of reason’, 169
the ‘borderland’, 86
Chancery Lunatics, 83
Commissioners on Lunacy, 45
‘contagion by example’ notion, 204
difficulties of expert-witnessing, 331-2, 375-8
distortions of passion and volition (‘irresistible impulse’), 5-6, 98, 106, 113, 121-2, 168-70, 171-2, 186-8, 270, 307, 313, 337, 357, 388
double personality (‘doublement de la vie’), 217-18, 244-5, 246
feminism and, 200-1
hereditarian explanations in France, 169, 183-4, 185, 204
inherited component of Thaw’s condition, 305, 319, 332-3, 349, 350
legal definitions of, 3, 4, 8, 68, 81, 84, 85, 88-101, 102-3, 104-5, 121, 332-3, 375
legal precedent and, 90-9, 102, 103
legislation in Britain, 45, 92, 120, 126, 127
legislation under Third Republic, 170-1
medical literature on, 83-4, 86, 88, 89-90, 92, 97-8
M’Naghten rules, 100-1, 105, 307, 333, 357, 388
monomania, 168, 169
moral, 5, 83-4, 86, 87
partial and absolute, 89-92, 93-4, 100-1, 105, 169, 337
pauper lunatics, 45, 126
personality disorders, 6, 7, 86, 99, 323, 389, 394
plea in US courts, 270, 307, 313
plea of ‘diminished responsibility’, 113
schizophrenia, 6, 99, 332, 384, 389-90
sexualized female badness and, 74-5, 77
tertiary syphilis and, 44, 182
‘therapeutic confinement’, 3
treatments at asylums, 43, 83, 126-7, 181-2
use of neuro-images in court, 389-90
Victorian understanding of heredity and, 42, 45-6, 81-2, 84, 86, 103-4, 111, 116, 119
wild-beast test, 90, 91, 94
see also asylums; delusion; mind-doctors; paranoia; the criminally insane
Italy, 17, 20, 36, 45, 161
Jackson, Mrs (matron at Broadmoor), 127-8, 129, 130
James, William, ‘Are We Automata?’, 330-1
Janet, Pierre, 218, 244
Jaurès, Jean, 247
jealousy, 2, 4, 7, 36, 114, 170, 187, 239-40, 250, 299, 315, 341, 386
Jelliffe, Smith Ely, 309, 311, 331, 332, 334, 354
Jerome, William Travers, 303, 304, 310
first Thaw trial and, 313, 314-16, 319-20, 322-3, 325-30, 332-3, 335, 336-7, 342, 343
second trial of Thaw and, 348, 349, 350, 351-3, 354, 356-7
Thaw’s habeas corpus applications and, 360, 362-3, 364, 365-7
Joan of Arc, 293
Johns Hopkins psychiatry department, 363
Journal of Mental and Nervous Diseases, 311
Journal of Mental Science, 83
judicial and legal system, British
‘alienation of reason’, 169
definitions of insanity, 3, 4, 8, 68, 81, 84, 85, 88-101, 102-3, 104-5, 121
gender and, 3, 4-5, 9, 40, 112, 113, 114-15
‘guilty but insane’ verdicts, 310
‘mens rea’ 5, 391
M’Naghten rules, 100-1, 105, 307, 333, 357, 388
no easy solutions to love gone awry, 397-8
non compos mentis principle, 1-2
plea of ‘diminished responsibility’, 113
precedent in defining insanity, 90-9, 102, 103
Ruth Ellis case, 379-80
therapeutic jurisprudence, 381-2, 395
judicial and legal system, French
acquittals as symbolic assertions of justice, 218
confessional narratives, 161
in flagrante delicto mitigation, 187
hereditarian theories of the ‘born criminal’, 161, 217
the investigating magistrate (juge d’instruction), 160, 161-3, 171, 175
mind-doctors as expert witnesses, 168-9, 171-2, 181-8, 189, 224-7, 310
Napoleonic Code (1808), 160-1, 170, 186, 187-8, 243
no law against pre-trial disclosure, 173
precedent in crime passionnel, 187, 188
pre-trial inquiry (instruction), 160, 161-3, 221-2, 223
psychology of the defendant and, 160-1
recorded account of magistrate, 162
remuneration for medico-legal work, 186
rights of defendant, 162, 163
role for medico-legist in criminal code, 170, 251, 310
‘temporary’ lack of mental responsibility, 313
trial dossiers, 161, 162, 175, 222
trial procedure, 175, 192
women criminals and, 161, 172, 188, 193-5, 198, 199, 235-6, 379-80
judicial and legal system, US
changes to insanity legislation after Hinckley trial, 390-1
insanity pleas, 270, 307, 313
legal definitions of insanity, 332-3
mind-doctors as expert witnesses, 307, 308-13, 314-16, 318-24, 326-7, 329-35, 337-8, 344-7, 348-9, 354, 363, 375, 380
‘not guilty by reason of insanity’ verdict, 310, 357-8, 360, 378
‘the unwritten law’ (honour codes), 267-8, 292, 304, 305-7, 336, 339, 348
therapeutic jurisprudence, 381
Jung, Carl Gustav, 59, 309
the Jungfrau, 296
Juvenal, 64
Kafka, Franz, The Trial, 162-3
Käsebier, Gertrude, 278
Katzenstein, Schloss (the Tyrol), 293-5, 301, 329, 355
Kennedy, Helena, 341
Kent and Canterbury Hospital, 46
Keogh, Martin, 365, 368
Key, Philip Barton, 306
King, Nell, 275
kleptomania, 169, 185
Kraepelin, Emil, 332, 354-6
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), 2, 250, 287, 324
Textbook of Insanity (1905), 330
Labori, Fernand, 242, 245-6
Lacan, Jacques, 64, 171
Lacassagne, Alexandre, 217, 220
Lachaud, Charles, 178-9, 180, 190-2, 193, 202
lactation, 50, 183
Lafarge, Marie, 178
Lamb, Charles (author), 1
Lamb, Charles (lawyer), 25, 27, 28, 29, 36-7, 77, 123
Lamb, Mary, 1, 92
Lane, Dr Edward, 60-1, 64
L’Angelier, Pierre Émile, 39-40
Lasdun, James, Give Me Everything You Have, 393
Lasègue, Charles, 169, 183
Le Bon, Gustave, 163
Leak, Roy D., 366
Letherby, Professor, 33, 34
Lewes County Prison, 66-7, 82, 102, 116-17, 118, 119-20, 125, 127, 129
Liddell, A. J. O., 126
Liébault, Ambroise, 211
Liégeois, Jules, 210, 216, 230, 231, 232-3
Lincoln, Abraham, 312
literature, 2-3, 76
feuilletons in France, 173
French, 139, 140, 173, 174, 182
popular, 23, 28, 39, 74-5, 173
Littleton, Martin W., 348, 350, 351, 352, 358
‘logorrhea’ of Harry Thaw, 285, 321, 349, 354, 355
Lombroso, Cesare, 71, 161, 163, 217, 300
Lourdes, 208
Lunacy Act (1845), 45, 126
Lutes, Jean Marie, Front-Page Girls, 341
Lyndhurst, Lord, 99
Lyon school of criminology, 217
Mabon, William, 329
MacDonald, Carlos F., 312, 329-30
Madison Square Garden, New York, 255-6, 257-8, 260
murder of Stanford White at, 258, 260-3, 264-5
White’s apartment at, 257-8, 265, 269, 278, 281
White’s luminous Diana at, 258, 260
madness see insanity
Magna Carta, 360
Magnan, Valentin, Délire Chronique (1890), 324
magnetizers, animal, 208
Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases, 51
Malvern water cure, 56, 61, 62
Manhattan State Hospital, 312
manic depressive psychosis, 6, 332, 354, 355-6, 357-8, 364
Mansfield, Lord Chief Justice, 93-4
manslaughter, 113, 115
Marc, Charles Chrétien Henri, De la Folie dans ses rapports avec les questions médico-legales (1840), 98
Margate, Kent, 16, 31, 36, 40-2, 45, 46, 74
marriage, 7, 107
in belle époque France, 139, 140, 152, 167, 168, 174, 180, 203
divorce legislation in France (1884), 203
idealized space of the home, 114-15, 251, 306, 336
spousal murders by men, 9, 25, 114, 187, 194, 200
spousal murders by women, 9, 25, 65, 69, 114, 187
unhappy, 47, 53, 59, 60, 62, 251, 392
Marriott, Frederick, 267-8
Marsh, James, 40
Martin, judge Mr Baron Samuel, 76, 102, 104-5, 106-7
letter to Home Secretary, 111-12, 116
masturbation, 50, 53, 54, 62, 183
medical, 56
Matteawan State Hospital for the criminally insane, 303, 358-9, 360, 361, 363, 365, 366-7, 368, 369
Maudsley, Dr Henry, 83-4, 86-7, 89-90, 92, 94, 161, 249-50, 310
Maule, Justice, 105
de Maupassant, Guy, 182
Maybrick, Mrs, 14
Maynard’s (Brighton confectioner), 14, 15, 19, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35-6, 80, 104, 122
McAlpin Hotel, New York, 371-2
McEwan, reverend W. L., 266
McKenzie, May, 265, 302
McKinley, President, assassination of, 274, 275, 312
Medico-Psychological Association, 83
melancholia, 118, 215, 326, 329, 354
Menninger, Karl A., 376, 377
menopause, 50, 60, 61, 81-2, 111
menstruation, 49, 50, 172, 183, 204, 225
Merrifield, F., 25
Merrill, Susie, 285-6, 362, 364
mesmerists, 208, 232
Meyer, Adolf, 309, 354-5, 363
Mill, John Stuart, 24-5
Miller, Charles David, 33
mind-doctors
1900s period as exciting moment, 308-9
aspiration to scientific exactitude, 88
belief in importance of work, 43
buying of favourable opinions by attorneys, 310, 344, 375
calls for impartial experts after Thaw trial, 344, 347, 377
capital punishment and, 397
expansion of profession, 5-6, 9-10
fall-out from Thaw trial, 344-7
forensic psychiatry, 2, 10, 250, 311, 381
French, 8, 63-4, 98, 121, 134, 167, 168-72, 181-8, 204-5, 224-31, 246, 251, 310
French judicial system and, 160, 168-9, 170-2, 181-8, 204-5, 224-7, 230-1, 310
gendered diagnoses, 1, 6, 49-50, 61, 63-4, 81-2, 83-4, 119, 172, 183, 250-1
impact of Christiana Edmunds’s case, 120-1
male passions and, 251
malign experience of the Thaw trials, 375-8
medical appraisal of Edmunds for Home Secretary, 117-19
medical confidentiality and, 367, 383, 384, 385- 6
medicalization of sexuality, 249
misogyny and, 83-4
need to be distinct from law enforcers, 398
passion as explanatory category in France, 168-70, 171-2
psychological shock of migration and, 167
remuneration for medico-legal work, 186
Ruth Ellis case and, 380
term ‘alienist’, 2
term ‘psychiatrist’, 2
term ‘psychologist’, 64
uses of psychiatry in USSR, 378
see also expert psychiatric witnesses
misogyny, 83-4, 373
mistresses, 54, 137, 140, 156-7, 158, 199, 202, 237, 239-40, 241
Mitchell, Price, 349
M’Naghten, Daniel, 95-9, 103, 118
M’Naghten rules, 100-1, 105, 307, 333, 357, 388
the mob, phenomenon of, 207, 217
Moll, Albert, 233
Monash University in Australia, 393
Monk Eastman gang, 299, 322
monomania, 168, 169
Monro, John, 4
Monroe, Marilyn, 258
Moore, Lawrence, 384
moral insanity, 5, 83-4, 86, 87
Mordaunt divorce trial (1870), 77
Morris Plains, New Jersey State Asylum, 311, 320
Motet, Auguste, 182-5, 186, 189, 204, 224, 226
motherhood, 139, 141, 161, 177, 188, 194, 199, 201
idealized in belle époque France, 198, 241
maternal love, 153, 158, 168, 184-5, 186, 190-1, 193, 202
Mullen, Paul E., 393
Muller, Franz, 77-8
Miinsterberg, Hugo, 208
Musil, Robert, The Man Without Qualities, 2-3
Muybridge, Eadweard, 306-7
Naquet, Alfred, 203
narcissistic disorder, 322, 324, 389
National Stalking Clinic, London, 395
de Nerval, Gérard, 181-2
Nesbit, Evelyn
allows Thaw to regain access, 297-8
arrival in Manhattan, 271, 273
avoids Thaw, 296-7
biographical details, 258, 271-82
birth of son (October 1910), 359, 365
death of (1967), 373
dental work suggested by White, 276-7, 299
divorce and remarriage, 371
evades reporters after murder, 265
files for annulment of marriage to Thaw, 361
first months of marriage in Pittsburgh, 298-9
friendship with Flint, 367-8
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955 film about), 258, 373
hold over White wanes, 296-7
John Barrymore proposes marriage, 281-2
later life of, 373
lives at Wellington Hotel, 277-8
marriage to Thaw, 266-7, 298
medical emergency in New Jersey, 290, 319, 325, 343
meets Stanford White, 274-7
meets Thaw, 282, 283-4
morphine and alcohol addiction, 373
Mrs Thaw and, 262, 266-7, 297, 298, 304, 372
murder of Stanford White and, 261-3
in musical Floradora, 257, 266, 274-5, 282
photogenic appeal of, 257, 258, 259, 276, 339
press attitudes to, 339, 340, 341-3
‘recuperative’ trip to Europe, 290-6, 337
return to New York from Europe, 296
return to the stage, 365, 369
schooldays diary of, 326, 342-3
at second trial of Thaw, 348, 351-3
sent to boarding school in New Jersey, 282, 289- 90
small inheritance from Thaw, 374
The Story of My Life by Evelyn Thaw (1914 memoir), 262, 284, 292-3, 326, 327
Thaw at Matteawan and, 358, 359, 360
Thaw threatens life of, 361, 368
on Thaw’s appearance and character, 283-4
Thaw’s obsession with White and, 267, 270
Thaw’s pursuit of, 289-91
Thaw’s sexual brutality towards, 294-5, 301, 329, 339, 341, 343, 355
treatment of by Thaw family after trials, 361
trial testimony, 279-80, 300, 301-2, 317-18, 325-6, 339, 341-3, 363
Untold Story (Prodigal Days in US) (1934), 262, 373
as vixen or victim, 340-2
White arranges photographs of, 278-9
White as patron of, 280-1
at White’s Garden apartment, 257-8, 278, 281
White’s statutory rape of, 279-80, 292-3, 294-5, 301, 306, 317, 325, 341, 342, 343
in The Wild Rose, 280-1, 282, 324
work posing for artists and photographers, 272-4, 276
Nesbit, Florence MacKenzie, 271-2, 274, 275, 276-7, 278, 281, 282, 293, 326, 365
absent from Thaw trial, 302
becomes daughter Evelyn’s manager, 272-3
dislike of Thaw, 289, 291, 292, 296
Evelyn’s ‘recuperative’ trip to Europe and, 290- 1
Nesbit, Howard, 271, 277, 278, 291, 302, 326
Nesbit, Winfield Scott, 271
Network for Surviving Stalking, 395
neurological sphere, 7, 88, 208-9, 250-1, 308, 309, 310-11, 312, 376
hysteria and, 51-2, 53-4, 55, 209-10, 225
neuro-criminologists, 389-90
New York
corruption in, 255, 304
Gilded Age architecture, 256-8
laws on insanity in, 307, 313, 314-15
Nesbit’s arrival in Manhattan, 271, 273
NYU School of Medicine, 310-11
Pathological Institute, 309
social class in, 255, 256-8, 260, 263, 265-6, 286-7
Supreme Court of, 301
the ‘Tenderloin’ area, 255, 263-4, 285, 336, 337
New York Psychiatric Institute, 355
New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, 258, 268-9, 275
New York State Commission in Lunacy, 312, 331
Newgate Prison, 66-7, 82, 84, 109, 116
Nice, Théâtre Français, 197
Nightingale, Florence, 61
nitrate of silver, 55
Northampton asylum for the criminally insane, 92 Norway, 381
nymphomania, 6, 50-1, 52, 61, 63, 64
Oakley, Violet, 272
Obscene Publications Act, 19
obsessional love, 7, 63-5, 119, 121-2, 124, 382-3
Edmunds’ for Beard, 18-19, 35, 37, 53-4, 57, 59, 78-9, 103, 105-7, 110-11, 116-17, 122, 249, 387
John Hinckley Jr case, 388-91
social class and, 386-7
Tarasoff case (1969), 383-4, 385, 386, 387
see also stalking
occult forces, belief in, 208
Offences Against the Person Acts (1828, 1837), 113
Oge, Marie, 267-8
Old Bailey trial of Christiana Edmunds, 44, 45, 66, 68, 69-72, 74, 75-7, 78-87, 117, 123
defendant’s claim of pregnancy, 108-11, 123
demeanour and appearance of defendant, 69-72, 80, 85, 105-6, 108, 122
Dr Beard as witness, 72, 80
insanity defence, 81-7, 102-5, 111
jury of matrons at, 108-10
medico-legal expert witnesses, 82-7, 102, 103
mother of defendant as witness, 42, 57, 81-2
significance of defendant’s age, 40, 81-2, 111
sister Mary at, 48
summary remarks and judge’s summing up, 102-5
verdict and death sentence, 105-8, 115
Onslow, Lord, 90-1
Orange, Dr William, 117, 118, 119, 125-6, 127, 128, 129
O’Reilly, Daniel, 358
d’Orsay, Hôtel, Paris, 350, 352
Oudinet, Monsieur, 154, 155-6, 189
Over, Alice, 82
paedophilia, 8
Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, 392
Palmer’s Act (Central Criminal Court Act, 1856), 66
Palmerston, Lord, 54
Papin sisters, 387
paranoia, 6, 64, 313
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