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From Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia by Jim Geekie and John Read

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FAB Facts: The Aerial Mishaps Whilst Filming for Supercar

FAB Facts: The Aerial Mishaps Whilst Filming for Supercar

During the production of Supercar, Gerry Anderson himself took to the skies with cinematographer John Read to capture shots of the sky required for the show. However, the shoot wasn’t straightforward, as Gerry soon discovered that John only had one lung…

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From Making Sense of Madness: Contesting the Meaning of Schizophrenia by Jim Geekie and John Read

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John Read

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Man jailed for M6 drugs run has driving ban added to sentence A DRUGS courier jailed after a £719,000 criminal cargo was found in his vehicle near Carlisle has had a driving ban added to his sentence Full story: https://www.cumbriacrack.com/2018/10/04/man-jailed-for-m6-drugs-run-has-driving-ban-added-to-sentence/

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Durante el siglo XIX, el progreso de la medicina fue espectacular, por lo que resulta comprensible que surgiera la motivación de alcanzar unos logros parecidos en lo que respecta a la locura. Se crearon nuevas categorías de locura, pero "la psiquiatría no se había comprometido lo suficiente en el proceso científico" como para dejarlas de lado cuando se comprobó que no eran eficaces. Por otra parte, la psiquiatría no se podía permitir abandonar la búsqueda de las «enfermedades mentales», ya que su supervivencia como ciencia médica dependía de ello.

John Read (en 'Modelos De Locura', John Read, Loren R. Mosher, Richard P. Bentall).

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"Si oyes voces y ves visiones..., ¡no estás mal de la cabeza!"

¿La locura... es cultural? ¡Claro! Conozco a fondo la cultura maorí, y sé que en esa cultura no es síntoma de locura oír voces. Aquí sí, aquí te llevan al médico... Allí entienden que es un ancestro que acude a ayudarte. Lo agradeces..., ¡y a otra cosa! Oír voces, entonces, ¿no es patológico? Para la especie humana, no es nada raro oír voces y ver visiones: ¡es parte de nuestra naturaleza! El 15% de la gente oye voces. ¿Le ha pasado a usted? Un buen amigo mío se mató en accidente de coche... Lo lamenté tanto... Al día siguiente se me apareció, vino a despedirse de mí... ¿Hay explicación científica? Lo primero es aceptar el hecho sin problematizarlo, pues lo que ayuda no es saber cómo sucede, ¡sino dilucidar qué significa! ¿Y qué significa? ¡Es un mensaje a encajar en la biografía de quien lo vive! Pero el psiquiatra, en vez de escuchar al paciente..., ¡lo dopa! Debería ver cómo encaja el mensaje en su relato vital. ¿Lo llamamos locura... y es un mensaje? Sí. El psiquiatra debe lograr, con humildad, sensibilidad y paciencia, que el paciente se convierta en autor del relato de su vida... ¿Conclusión? La buena calidad de la relación terapeuta-paciente es lo más curativo que hay. ¡No existe mejor medicina! ¿Algún consejo para el terapeuta? Escucha al paciente con paciencia, sin hacerle sentir enfermo mental y sin juzgarle. Fragmento de la entrevista realizada a John Read en La Contra

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Peter Opie :: Letter to a Nursery Rhyme Source

This letter from folklore collector Peter Opie to a Mr. Warner was found in my copy of The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (Oxford University Press, 1955):

ROCKBOURNE HOUSE, 100 HIGH STREET ALTON, HAMPSHIRE Alton 2850

15 November 1956 Dear Mr. Warner,      How nice to hear from you. The great value of your reminiscences is that they tell us what to look out for. Did I tell you, for instance, that we have found the original of your 'Johnny Morgan played the organ' which you sent us in 1949 (the 30th June to be precise)? It was written and composed by John Read, and published or republished c. 1887 -- a politer verse than yours -- needless to say:      Johnny Morgan play'd the organ,           The father beat the drum;      The sister played the tambourine,           The brother went pom [6 times]                                                    over

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   All alone on an old trombone:         The music was so sweet,     They often got a penny         To go into another street. We have also had a verse similar to yours sent in recently from Fa--- [illegible]. My own ignorance of international affairs is such that I have only just realised during these past few weeks that if Russia nipped us in the stem at Suez we and all Europe would fall into /their possession as surely and sweet as the apple goes into the scrumper's pocket.      I like the Osbert Lancaster cartoon in todays Express. The Red Dean is preaching, and one lady turns to a deaf one repeating his words" 'He says that Herod never massacred the Holy Innocents -- he just intervened to restore order at the parents request!' Floreat Peter Opie

Just three years later, "Johnny Morgan" was cited in the Introductory material to the Opie's Lore and Language of Schoolchildren:

Again, the child rhyme,      Johnny Morgan played the organ,           Jimmy played the drum,      His sister played the tambourine           Till father smacked her bum, is a perverted recollection of the chorus of John Read's music-hall song 'Johnny Morgan' published in 1877…

With no envelope to accompany this letter, I can but hazard the guess that the recipient was Mr R.C. Warner of Farnham, Surrey, cited by the Opies as a regular source of those bits of poetry and lore that might be overheard on the playground or in the nursery, and without whom a book such as theirs would be much poorer.

Incidentally, twenty years after its writing, "Johnny Morgan" was sufficiently well known (perhaps already in its bastardized form) that it was among the insults hurled at the crew of the "Carrie" as she passed the "We're Here" in Captain's Courageous (1897).

"Good evenin'," said Disko, raising his headgear, "an' haow does your garden grow?"

"Go to Ohio an' hire a mule," said Uncle Salters. "We don't want no farmers here."

"Will I lend you my dory-anchor?" cried Long Jack.

"Unship your rudder an' stick it in the mud," said Tom Platt.

"Say!" Dan's voice rose shrill and high, as he stood on the wheel- box. "Sa-ay! Is there a strike in the o-ver-all factory; or hev they hired girls, ye Shackamaxons?"

"Veer out the tiller-lines," cried Harvey, "and nail 'em to the bottom." That was a salt-flavoured jest he had been put up to by Tom Platt. Manuel leaned over the stern and yelled; "Johnna Morgan play the organ! Ahaaaa!" He flourished his broad thumb with a gesture of unspeakable contempt and derision, while little Penn covered himself with glory by piping up: "Gee a little! Hssh! Come here. Haw!"

They rode on their chain for the rest of the night, a short, snappy, uneasy motion, as Harvey found, and wasted half the forenoon recovering the cable. But the boys agreed the trouble was cheap at the price of triumph and glory, and they thought with grief over all the beautiful things that they might have said to the discomfited Carrie.