Mediterranean Madness: Orthodox Mysticism and Modern Psychiatry in the British Ionian Islands Protectorate 1809-1864

In 1838 the British Empire established the first ever Greek Psychiatric hospital in Corfu, the colonial capital of the Ionian Islands, that had been under its 'protection' since the Congress of Vienna. This was run by the first Greeks to call themselves 'psychiatrists', Western-educated cosmopolitan nationalists who were avid followers of the…