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Mental Health and Insanity

The Healthy Mind

Take a psychopath test and see how you rate. My score was as follows; The Healthy Mind, 82% empathic, 24% delutional, 75% sociable, and 74% law abiding. You don't have any gross defects of character at all. You might have your problems, but for the most part you're simply a normal person and most definitely not a psychopath in any way.
Please share your scores in comments, we are all friends here after all.
Posted By: patty | Date: Wed Apr 03, 2013 | Comments (26)
Category: Mental Health and Insanity

Your Brain on Mescaline

In the early 1950s, German photographer Leif Geiges created a series of abstract images in order to try to portray "exactly what the mescaline subject sees and hears during the course of his artificial psychosis" — as Newsweek put it, which ran his images in its Feb 23, 1953 issue. This was before mescaline was made illegal, back when psychiatrists still believed that the experience of taking mescaline approximated the mental state of a schizophrenic and therefore could be of great experimental value.

As for the mescaline imagery itself, Newsweek explained:

On taking mescaline, first there is nausea, but this is soon followed by a derangement of the brain centers of sight and sound, which causes a constant stream of scenes of incredible beauty, color, grandeur, and variety. The contents of the hallucinations always jibe with past experiences; they are wish-fulfilling fantasies (an air pilot sees mechanical dream cities; an ex-archeologist, mythological people and monsters). The form most frequently perceived is a tapestry, such as a wall-paper pattern that breaks into grotesque shapes. Other familiar forms are (1) lattice work of checkerboards, (2) spirals, (3) tunnels, funnels, alleys, and cones. The mescaline action begins 30 minutes after taking and lasts from ten to twelve hours.



"Wallpaper patterns come to life, change to demoniac caricatures, threaten immediate destruction"
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The Complete Blacky Pictures!

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Thanks to the stellar research powers of Alex B., we now have the complete set of these oddball Freudian prompts.

Click on the image to enlarge.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Thu Jun 28, 2012 | Comments (8)
Category: Art, Children, Alex, 1950's, Mental Health and Insanity

Harmless



"The story is about a husband and father and his battle with pornography. Actual home movies and interviews tell the story of the terror the family faces when a box of pornography is opened and something is unleashed."

Backed by a religious group. Surprised?

And if you haven't guessed, despite the subject matter, it's Safe For Virginal Eyes.

Boredom at Work:  The Empty Life



This is like some episode of MAD MEN created during the actual era. "He makes friends with every ten-dollar tramp that comes along..."

Excellent!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Sep 28, 2010 | Comments (7)
Category: PSA's, Work and Vocational Training, 1960's, Mental Health and Insanity

Inexplicable!

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Actor refuses sex scene with Virginia Madsen.

I rest my insanity case, judge.
Posted By: Paul | Date: Fri Apr 02, 2010 | Comments (11)
Category: Television, Sex Symbols, Mental Health and Insanity

Mental Hospital



First-person trip to "the bughouse," interspersed by comments of all-wise narrator. Now, with more electroshock!
Posted By: Paul | Date: Tue Mar 23, 2010 | Comments (5)
Category: 1950's, Mental Health and Insanity
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