![]() The regimen included isolation, bed rest, and heavy foods and prohibited work of any kind, physical or intellectual. Weir Mitchell treated me with what I consider the inevitable result, progressive insanity.Mitchell, immortalized by name in Gilman’s story, was the physician who first developed the famous “rest cure” for women suffering from depression. It is a description of a case of nervous breakdown beginning something as mine did, and treated as Dr. “ Go rest, young man”: Silas Weir Mitchell and the “West cure” (American Psychological Association)Īmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulpsīuy both volumes of American Fantastic Tales in a boxed setĭuring the last months of her life, Charlotte Perkins Gilman finished her autobiography and recalled how she came to write “The Yellow Wall Paper”: ![]() “ What’s Behind Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Yellow Wallpaper?” ( Ms. ![]() ![]() “ Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman (CUNY) ![]()
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