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CW: the wikipedia page for schizophrenia’s predecessor diagnosis, “dementia praecox,” displays a horrifying image of a woman in a French asylum with her diagnosis literally scratched into her back. Was this a practice??

by /u/moyofan in /r/AskHistorians

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