âSociety, which defines itself as sane, must be able to localize and confine the mad, if only visually, in order to create a separation between the sane and the insane... It is our need for instantaneous awareness (which is often based on our construction of images of âmadnessâ rather than the illnesses themselves), which is the rationale for the visual stereotype of the insane.â
Sander Gilman (1988)
