Monday, March 27, 2017

Excellent Article on the Experience of Being a Psychotic Patient

"As of 1936, the hospital had sterilized a hundred and fifty-five patients, and later it began experimenting with newfangled remedies, like electroconvulsive therapy and insulin-induced comas; the shock of such procedures, it was thought, might clear patients’ minds."

--"God Knows Where I Am" by Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker

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