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Mary Barnes
Mary Barnes played an important role in Dr Joseph Berke's life. It was the 1960's and with R. D. Laing at Kingsley Hall, where he helped Mary Barnes, a nurse who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia to emerge from madness. Barnes later became a famous artist, writer and mystic.
Projections
Poem
by
Mary Barnes
I feel I'm dying
Are you dead?
I love you dearly
Shall you kiss me?
Why don't you respond
You are me:
I feel you
What have I done
That you are so bad?
I'm furious with me
Why don't you scream?
I hate myself
Why are you killing yourself?
Don't be jealous of me
Because I envy you.
Let's untie the knot
And feel for ourselves.
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