Mary Barnes
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"Mary Edith Barnes" was an England/English artist and writer who suffered from schizophrenia but recovered to become a successful painter. She is particularly known for her documentation of her experience at Ronald David Laing/R.D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London.

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I'm not sure if I'm glad they went or I wish they'd have stayed. I know the hospital needs him.

I hope we do everything possible so that fragile and impaired elders are not left behind, and that they do not get pushed aside in wheelchairs with blankets covering their heads because they have expired.

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