The present
Madness is very common in the social landscape. From the Renaissance to the
Middle Ages, there has been a dramatic conflict between man and madness, and so
far, the social stigma oscillates between sanity and insanity. Through time, psychiatry
mistreated many mentally ill people and this practice was used for social and
political reasons by confining healthy people into mental institutions.
Nowadays, insanity is considered to be a major issue in our society. Psychological
disorders, especially depression, have risen rapidly over the years, as one out of four
people in Europe have experienced at least one major depressive episode during
their lifetime, according to surveys contacted by the European Parliament on mental
health, in 2006. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies schizophrenia and
depression within the top 10 illnesses with the most serious effect in t