TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - "May all be shattered into god": Mary Barnes and her journey through madness in Kingsley Hall
JO  - Journal of medical humanities
A1  - Chapman, Adrian
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1041-3545
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-018-9517-1
ID  - ref1
ER  -