Currently researching to create an information outlet regarding mental illness. Need to ensure there are no glaring omissions/interesting oddities. Obscure incidences of mental illness would also be interesting, but primarily examples of treatment. I understand this is an unclear subject. There's obviously blurry lines around what could be regarded as treatment or illness, and other obscuring factors. Nonetheless any help would be much appreciated.
In his 1954 work Mental Illness and Psychology, the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault notes that in pre-modern Europe, people considered "mad" were frequently wards of the Church. According to Foucault, it wasn't until they started being housed in hospitals that a discourse on mental illness developed.