Chapman, A. (2020) "May all Be Shattered into God": Mary Barnes and her journey through madness in Kingsley Hall. Journal of Medical Humanities, 41(2), pp. 207-228. (doi: 10.1007/s10912-018-9517-1) (PMID:29860647)
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Abstract
Contributing to renewed scholarly interest in R. D. Laing and his circle, and in the radical therapeutic community of Kingsley Hall, London (1965-1970), this article offers the first article-length reading of Mary Barnes’ and Joseph Berke’s Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey through Madness. This text offers views of anti-psychiatry ‘on the ground’ that critique the 1960s utopianism of Laing’s championing of madness as a metanoic, quasi-psychedelic voyage. Barnes’ story, too, reveals tensions within the anti-psychiatric movement. Moving beyond existing criticism of the text, Barnes, it is argued here, emerges as far more than an exemplary patient, victim or anti-psychiatric puppet. Particular attention is paid in this reading of Two Accounts to the following: the ways in which the spiritually inclined Barnes and the psychoanalytic Berke differ in this dual narrative text; the ways in which each differs from Laing; the metaphor of the journey; and the setting of Barnes’ story in the often conflicted, experimental household of Kingsley Hall.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Additional Information: | Funding: Wellcome Trust 108826/Z/15/Z. |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | No |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Chapman, Dr Adrian |
Authors: | Chapman, A. |
College/School: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Critical Studies > English Literature |
Journal Name: | Journal of Medical Humanities |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 1041-3545 |
ISSN (Online): | 1573-3645 |
Published Online: | 02 June 2018 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2018 The Author(s) |
First Published: | First published in Journal of Medical Humanities 41(2): 207-228 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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