M E N T A L ~ H E A L T H . . . by different artists

MANIC OBSESSION  in a 1951 advertisement

      

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SENSORY DISTORTION  in an advertisement,  1930s?

      

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DELUSIONAL PSYCHOSIS      actually it's from an Art Seiden

children's book       see full size

             
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AGORAPHOBIA     "I shrank in closer behind the cooler"     1924
      

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  a  MESSIAH COMPLEX   in a Harold Von Schmidt illustration
      

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MASS HYSTERIA  in a Herbert James Draper painting 

see full size

      

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ALCOHOLISM     a Rod Filbrandt cartoon
      

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HALLUCINATIONS     an N.C. Wyeth illustration

      

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"The chalets of La Salpetriere for the crazy agitated"   1843   see full size
      

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ALCOHOL AS MEDICINE   at the 1890 London insane asylum ... alcohol mixed with
water was cheaper than beer wine or whiskey for patient consumption

      

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"Psychoanalysis"   a comic book for EC Comics by Jack Kamen 

      

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MANIC DEPRESSION

      

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PLAIDNESS    1972       see full size
      

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REPRESSED ANGER     "Harry - you're spoiling Thanksgiving for the children!"

      

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a  PERSECUTION COMPLEX    "When did you first become aware of this imagined
'plot to get you',  Mr. Potter?"   by Gahan Wilson
      

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"Zippy's Favourite Nervous Breakdown"  by Bill Griffith      click twice
"symptom onset, dissociative feelings, motor dysfunction, loss of identity,
paranoid delusions, violent schizophrenia, complete collapse" 

      

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an Austin Briggs illustration
      

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from a 1908 French comedy publication

      

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 Ren and Stimpy animation insanity        see full size
      

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"Stairwell inviting depressed patients to jump down headlong" 

from a 1921 critical look at mental asylum design

      

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"Two stairways leading to the same point"   a 1921 mental asylum
      

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a Robert Williams painting       see full size

      

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a story panel by Angelo Torres ... rejecting the visiting doctor
      

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a Carl Barks portrait of Donald Duck

      

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a book illustration by J. Mahoney       see full size
      

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1955 children's beds designed by well-intentioned adults

      

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from a 1940s advertisement, an unintentionally odd doll
      

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"Portrait of Charles Meryon"    the mentally ill artist in an 1858

hotel bed one day before his hospitalization       see full size

      

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a Harry Douthwaite book cover illustration
      

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a Scott Wills animation image