Anti-Psychiatry Museum

I met Katrina through Facebook, which was a little weird. She was Facebook friends with two of my facebook friends. One (Erin) of whom lives in LA, and she met at a wedding. The other (Patrick) lives in London, and she went to college with. She decided I was her Kevin Bacon.


So we went (not just the two of us, it wasn't like a date) to the Anti-Psychiatry Museum, because that's what you should do with people you meet on Facebook. It's called "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death". It's about all the bad things that psychiatrists do, and how they have a plan to, errrmmm, well the museum was a bit vague on what the actual plan was, but it was very clear that psychiatrists had a plan.

Bits of it were interesting. Lots of it was true. Mental hospitals in 1800 were very unpleasant. Some psychiatrists were nazis. Lobotomies were a bad thing. Too many children are on Ritalin. But how this all linked together into a masterplan was a little vague. One of the last exhibits was a copy of every issue of the DSM (1, 2, 3, 3R, 4 and 4TR) which I thought was quite cool. But that probably wasn't the point. (I'm not sure what the point was though).

You had a receiver thing, and headphones to hear the text accompanying a whole lot of videos. But you only had one receiver, per two headphones.