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How to extract the object (a) of madness.
During stress, patient is strapped in a suspended armchair and whirled  rapidly, after which a normal patient would be dizzy but a psychotic  will not. Image taken by photographer Herbert Gehr at Worcester State Hospital, 1949.

How to extract the object (a) of madness.

During stress, patient is strapped in a suspended armchair and whirled rapidly, after which a normal patient would be dizzy but a psychotic will not. Image taken by photographer Herbert Gehr at Worcester State Hospital, 1949.

— 2 years ago with 36 notes
#Worchester  #asylum  #loucura  #madness  #manicômio  #mental hospital  #psychiatry 
How to extract the object (a) of madness.
Men sitting in 112 degree heat and 95% humidity, sweating, which is funneled into flasks to analyze and compare. Image taken by photographer Herbert Gehr at a mental hospital in Worchester, 1949.

How to extract the object (a) of madness.

Men sitting in 112 degree heat and 95% humidity, sweating, which is funneled into flasks to analyze and compare. Image taken by photographer Herbert Gehr at a mental hospital in Worchester, 1949.

— 2 years ago with 14 notes
#Herbert Gehr  #Worchester  #madness  #mental hospital  #psicose  #psychosis