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Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: Psychiatric Hospitals
By Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Luminous-Lint
Straight jackets, electroshock therapy, and frontal lobotomies. Such are the images captured by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier during his visit to French psychiatric hospitals in 1954 and published a year later in the French magazine R?alit?s. In 2006, many of the photos were republished as a 24-page booklet. Haunting and disturbing, the photos depict the painful reality of being committed during a time when psychiatric theories differed widely from those accepted today. For a similarly stunning visual study, check out Utne Reader's recent profile of photographer David Maisel's Library of Dust. (Thanks, We-Make-Money-Not-Art-.com.) -- Mary O'Regan
http://www.luminous-lint.com/__sw.php?action=ACT_VEX&p1=_PHOTOGRAPHER_Jean-Philippe__Charbonnier_02&p2=2&p3=0&p4=0

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It's hard to imagine burning out on Zen Buddhism, centered as it is on the principles of not doing. Yet for Laura Hawes, Zen practice was just another way to compete and, eventually, burn out. In her first-person account, Hawes reflects on her attraction to Buddhism as a 21-year-old, frazzled Ivy-leaguer. At first, she found Zen practice to be a welcome relief. The problem was, Hawes writes, 'I couldn't help trying... to be the best Zen Buddhist.' When she eventually stopped practicing, Hawes found that her years of Buddhist study proved good training for a more daunting task than spiritual enlightenment: motherhood. -- Evelyn Hampton
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