When reviewing medical records from admissions to the old asylum near her hometown of Enniscorthy, Dr Emma Farrell stumbled on the crude origins of today's diagnostic system for mental illness.
If you had the misfortune of being admitted to the asylum more than a century ago, you were most likely to be assigned one of three 'species of insanity': melancholia, mania or dementia.
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