Colltales adventures into the story of color preferences in the insane, jumping off from our excursion in that far-off land: There are many reasons why the 1931 research “Color Preference in the Insane,” by Dr. Siegfried Katz, was important. At the time, for example, lobotomy was still an accepted treatment for schizophrenia. In fact, the […]
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Rich Traveler Demented
This April 12, 1908 report in The New York Times describes a different, earlier John M. Coates, who “is supposed to be an eccentric globe trotter, with plenty of money to indulge his tastes” and who “was today committed to the Newburg Insane Asylum by Judge Harden of the Probate Court.” (That’s an excerpt from […]