Chaosophy - autonomous learning

With the exception of a few pilot programs like those of Saint
Alban in Lozere, or Fleury-Ies-Aubrais in the Loiret, French psychiatry
in the 1950s had the grisly look one still finds today, for
example, in Greece on the island of Leros or in the hospital of
Daphni near Athens. Psychotics, objects of a system of quasi-zoological
guardianship, necessarily take on an almost bestial allure,
turning in circles all day long, knocking their heads against the
walls, shouting, fighting, crouching in filth and excrement. These
patients, whose understanding and relations with others are disturbed,
slowly lose their human characteristics, becoming deaf and
blind to all social communication. Their guardians, who at that
time had no training at all, were forced to retreat behind a sort of
armor of inhumanity if they wanted to avoid depression and
despair themselves.
So I frequented Jean Oury since the early 1950s. He had been
trained in the profession by Fran