Have you ever been in a mental hospital? When you enter the territory of the psychiatric clinical hospital No. 1 named after N.A. Alekseeva, you involuntarily feel the calm, peace and comfort surrounding you. The area is quiet, clean, the lawns are evenly green, the walking paths meander beautifully, large rooks walk imposingly between the trees, the grapevine entwines the brick arches, the leaves have already fallen off, and no one has picked the grapes and the ripe clusters hang on the bare branches; In the garden where local patients work, some kind of multi-colored ornamental cabbage grows. The air seems thick, you catch yourself thinking that you want to stay here, like in a holiday home. We are going to the museum of the psychiatric hospital named after N.A. Alekseeva.
The door of the museum, located in one of the hospital buildings, is closed and to get inside you need to ring the bell. The museum is a museum, but the internal regulations of the psychiatric hospital dictate certain rules, for example: all doors must be locked. “Talk to patients as if they are healthy. But don’t forget that they are sick,” museum curator Alla Vasilievna quotes one of the doctors to us.
She doesn’t have a museum education, she doesn’t need it, she worked in this hospital for 50 years as a nurse, and later as the head nurse, and knows the history of this place firsthand. After she retired, she was invited to work at the museum. She refused for a long time, but eventually agreed, and now she got involved. Alla Vasilievna is very interesting person, she carefully jokes with us, then talks about what careless journalists came before us and what heresy they wrote. She monitors our reaction and throws out tests to see whether we are “bad” journalists and whether we will start asking her to show us straitjackets, handcuffs and other stereotypical “horrors”. We are very embarrassed about the reputation of the profession and we successfully pass the test, proving that we came here not for “yellow sensations”, but out of great interest.
The museum premises are small - 3 former chambers. Alla Vasilievna seats us at a round carved table in the first, largest hall, and begins her detailed story about the history of the hospital.
The mayor of Moscow in 1885-1893 was Nikolai Aleksandrovich Alekseev. Try to compare the efficiency and love for his city of this city manager with the mayor of the capital who recently “lost his trust.”
Thanks to Alekseev, water supply and sewerage appeared in Moscow (before that, the city of one and a half million people was dotted with stinking cesspools), the first slaughterhouses were built (the current Mikoyanovsky meat processing plant) and cattle were no longer slaughtered anywhere in the city, as in the wild Arab countries, on Red Square in 1890, the old shopping arcades were demolished and a prototype of the current GUM was built, a new city council building was built on Voskresenskaya Square, as well as several schools and vocational schools; Tretyakov Gallery and much more. Alekseev was a strong manager and did not fuss with officials; he demanded reports on all his decrees within a week, and did not engage in populist Saturday riding around the city criticizing other people’s work. With him, Moscow ceased to be a big village (although sometimes one has to doubt this).
One day, doctors from the oldest psychiatric hospital in Moscow - Preobrazhenskaya - S.S. came to see him. Korsakov and V.R. Butskei asked to build another clinic in the city, since the resources of one were not enough. Alekseev was inspired by the doctors’ idea and began collecting money to build a hospital.
Many philanthropists responded to his call to help solve this problem, sometimes with the stipulation that several beds would be assigned to their families for life. Alekseev used all possible methods for the benefit of the business; they say that in front of one merchant he even knelt right in the dirt when he answered his question about help in construction “as you ask, so I give.”
Not a single patron was forgotten. A list of the names of those who helped in the construction is kept in the museum and carved on a memorial on the hospital grounds. The list contains famous names Botkin and Tretyakov.
A plot of land was purchased for construction for Serpukhovskaya outpost from the merchant Kanatchikov (hence the name Kanatchikov's dacha), and with Ermakov's money the Ermakovsky building was later built.
Nikolai Alexandrovich considered the construction of this hospital his life’s work; he personally checked the quality of the bricks for construction, took one from each batch and threw it on the floor. If a brick broke, the entire batch was sent back. The red brick building in an eclectic style with 70 cm thick walls, high ceilings, rooms for 4-5 patients and special durable glass in the windows was built by 1894. March 9, 1893 in the evening after one of the receptions, Alekseev went to see off a visitor and at the door ran into a young man who shot him several times with a pistol. Ironically, the young man - Andrianov - turned out to be mentally ill, who believed that he had invented a cure for influenza (flu) and tried unsuccessfully to get an appointment with Alekseev. Where the psycho got the gun from is a complex question; one can suspect that it was a well-thought-out action by the mayor’s enemies. Sklifosovsky immediately arrived at the scene, sutured the wound, but peritonitis began from the bullet that hit the stomach, and medicine at that time was not yet so advanced (X-rays were invented only in 1895, and penicillin was discovered only in 1928). Before his death, Alekseev bequeathed to complete the construction of the hospital.
Alekseev was buried by the whole city. About 200,000 Muscovites attended the funeral procession.
Death mask of N.A. Alekseeva is kept in the museum.
He was 40 years old.
They have been planning to erect a monument to Nikolai Alexandrovich in Moscow for several years, but somehow there is no time for it yet.
A separate exhibition in the museum is dedicated to the Alekseev family. Cousin Nikolai Alexandrovich was the famous theater actor and director Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky.
On May 12 (old style), 1894, a new city psychiatric hospital was opened at Kanatchikova Dacha. There was a chapel on the second floor of the hospital, and by order Alexandra III The hospital was named after Alekseev.
The first stage of the hospital was built according to the design of L.O. Vasilyeva. The second stage (opened in 1905) was built by A.F. Meissner. Butske was appointed chief physician.
Menu for patients in 1894: Polish borscht, sour cabbage soup, Schnell klops, Potato fight, Fried stellate sturgeon, Cranberry jelly, Lemon mousse, Razsolnik, Tubules - everything is so delicious.
Mostly peasants from neighboring villages worked in the hospital. The photo shows the apron worn by women from the medical staff.
Pyotr Petrovich Kashchenko was the head physician of the hospital for only 2 years and 7 months, but during this time he left the best memories of himself among the staff. Thanks to him, separate rooms were equipped for medical workers to live in; before that, they huddled in the basement, in conditions worse than those of the sick.
The photo shows the collective farewell to P.P. Kashchenko leaving for St. Petersburg (in the center with his wife) 1907.
From 1922 to 1994 Moscow Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 bore the name Kashchenko. Thanks to stories, anecdotes and songs, the word “Kashchenko” became a common noun, meaning a madhouse.
Questionnaire from 1926 for patient Sergei Kirillovich Sedov, who was diagnosed with alcoholic psychosis (blue fever), and was taken to the hospital by his wife. It contains a huge, detailed list of questions about the patient’s entire life from conception and childhood to the present, for example:
- Didn’t the patient’s parents suffer from mental illness, were they weak-minded, strange in character and habits, were they habitual drunkards, criminals, or did they attempt suicide?
- Did either parent drink wine or vodka and in what quantities?
- How did the wine work and was there delirium tremens?
- Did the patient’s conception coincide with the illness or intoxication of one or both parents?
- Was the mother sick during pregnancy, did she have any moral shocks, did she lead a quiet life, did she indulge in excesses, did she drink vodka and wine, did she get bruises, did she work too much?
- Is there any relationship between the parents?
- What nationality did your parents belong to?
- Which parent is the patient most like?
- Were there any relatives suffering from hysteria, epilepsy, St. Witt, headaches, neuralgia, paralysis or other nervous diseases, as well as physical deformities and developmental disabilities, such as deaf-muteness, stuttering, etc.?
- How was the patient fed: breastfed or artificially?
- Have you had any brain seizures, convulsions, night screams or fears? Was there any sleepwalking or bedwetting?
- Was the child not given early childhood wine or poppy seeds (for sleep, etc.)?
- Did the child fall from a height and have any ear diseases?
- Did he have sexual intercourse too early, did he have masturbation?
- Was there any hypocrisy or prominent religiosity?
- Was there an excessive predominance of fantasy?
- What was it like social status sick? Was he pleased with him?
- Were there constant quarrels at home, and what role did the patient play in them? Did he cause the quarrels or did they not depend on him?
- Have you used holiday homes, sanatoriums, diet cafeterias, etc. Did you do physical education?
- Did you abuse sexual intercourse excessively? was there any improper sexual intercourse?
Old restored table
Ilya Natanovich Kaganovich was the chief physician of the hospital from 1930 to 1950. In 1950, he was removed from his post as head physician of the hospital with a scandal.
Whistle, you can guess why. There are different cases.
During the Great Patriotic War The hospital housed a center for the treatment of wounded people with traumatic brain injuries. The main method of treating the mentally ill was Electroconvulsive therapy. A scientifically proven, although still highly controversial and controversial, treatment method in which a seizure is caused by passing an electrical current through the brain of a patient under general anesthesia in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. Medicines, as you understand, were tight during the war.
Doctors and nurses who worked during the war are remembered and honored
The album “From charity for mental patients to active methods of treatment”, made and donated by hospital staff I.N. Kaganovich. History of psychiatry in pictures.
Notice the medicine wheel. Hamsters in home cages run around in about the same ones.
Dead hour. It sounds very calming.
There have never been any barbaric methods of treatment in hospital No. 1. From day one, straitjackets have been banned, although one hangs as an exhibit in a corner of the history of psychiatry. To pacify violent patients, wrapping with wet sheets was usually used.
A brief excursion into the history of psychiatry in the Middle Ages.
The museum contains an extensive collection of scientific works on psychiatry
Including works of art. For example, the familiar book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by the famous acid artist Ken Kesey.
Remember a few rules just in case.
Sports awards of hospital employees won in various sports and other competitions.
At the moment, exclusively humane and effective methods of treating mentally ill people are used for treatment.
Drug treatment
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy was used from the first days of the hospital in special rooms in departments and in outdoor work. The first occupational doctor was S.S. Stupin. Previously, the hospital even had its own country farm, where patients raised livestock to supply the hospital.
The beauty of the hospital grounds is the result of painstaking work experienced agronomist Rostislav Stepanovich Medvedyuk. The gladioli he bred more than once occupied prizes at exhibitions. This man is a true enthusiast of his business. He turned down a better paying job because he couldn't leave the hospital.
In the greenhouse and garden, he and the sick plant flowers and various ornamental plants, and in 1980, for Victory Day and the Olympics, on his initiative, 8 silver spruce trees were planted. Rostislav Stepanovich's dream is to grow a cedar grove. Just listen, the entire history of the hospital (and, more broadly, of our entire country) rests solely on enthusiasts.
Probably the only remaining pioneer camp in the country still operates for the hospital’s young patients.
Non-standard methods of treatment coexist with great religiosity.
Russian Orthodox Church is paying more and more attention to medical institutions. The temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” at the hospital was consecrated on October 25, 1896.
IN Soviet period, when the hospital church was closed, it was used for administrative purposes. And only on May 25, 1994, the temple was restored and consecrated again. In 1996, on the territory of the clinic, in memory of its founder Nikolai Alekseev, a chapel was built and consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Cultural therapy
It is no secret that many generally recognized geniuses did not always have impeccable mental health, to put it mildly. And some even ended their days within the walls of psychiatric hospitals. The museum also houses several collections literary works doctors who worked in the hospital. An extremely entertaining read.
One of the poems features the psycho Marx.
A poem about renovations in a hospital lobby. Comparing such things with the works of the same beloved Kharms, you involuntarily draw analogies and think about diagnoses in absentia.
The artistic works of patients deserve a separate discussion.
Selected paintings by schizophrenics are also carefully studied and published in separate catalogues.
Altered facial proportions, as in Modigliani's paintings, are usually characteristic of works by people with schizophrenia.
A whole vernissage was held at the club on the hospital grounds best works patients. The curator of the collection, Eduard Konstantinovich, can talk for a long time about each work separately, about the general style of the disease, about the typical themes of the works.
Looking at these pictures, you experience some kind of mixture of deep understanding and fear, from how accurately some hidden experiences are artistically reflected and how understandable they are to you. Unfortunately (because we didn't see them that day) and fortunately (because everyone will be able to see them), the most interesting works Now we have gone to an exhibition that will soon be held in Moscow.
On the day of our visit, there were several police vehicles, ambulances, a bomb disposal department, and a fire service on the hospital grounds. Surely someone called and said that there was a bomb planted on the premises. Maybe crazy, who knows.
Unfortunately, the museum is not open to the general public. Alla Vasilievna and her young assistant Marina (also an enthusiast, a girl with great interest in studying the history of medicine) conduct 2-3 excursions a week for patients, medical students and new hospital employees. To get into the museum without being a representative of one of these groups, you need to get permission from the head physician, and he already has enough to do, so I won’t leave any contacts or phone numbers here. Anyone who really wants it can easily find them on the Internet. It's all so exciting.
Have you ever been in a mental hospital? I've never had this happen before. When you enter the territory of the psychiatric clinical hospital No. 1 named after N.A. Alekseeva, you involuntarily feel the calm, peace and comfort surrounding you. The area is quiet, clean, the lawns are evenly green, the walking paths meander beautifully, large rooks walk imposingly between the trees, the grapevine entwines the brick arches, the leaves have already fallen off, and no one has picked the grapes and the ripe clusters hang on the bare branches; In the garden where local patients work, some kind of multi-colored ornamental cabbage grows. The air seems thick, you catch yourself thinking that you want to stay here, like in a holiday home. We are going to the museum of the psychiatric hospital named after N.A. Alekseeva.
The door of the museum, located in one of the hospital buildings, is closed and to get inside you need to ring the bell. The museum is a museum, but the internal regulations of the psychiatric hospital dictate certain rules, for example: all doors must be locked. “Talk to patients as if they are healthy. But don’t forget that they are sick,” museum curator Alla Vasilievna quotes one of the doctors to us.
_thumb_300_356.jpg)
She doesn’t have a museum education, she doesn’t need it, she worked in this hospital for 50 years as a nurse, and later as the head nurse, and knows the history of this place firsthand. After she retired, she was invited to work at the museum. She refused for a long time, but eventually agreed, and now she got involved. Alla Vasilyevna is a very interesting person, she carefully jokes with us, then talks about what careless journalists came before us and what heresy they wrote. She monitors our reaction and throws out tests to see whether we are “bad” journalists and whether we will start asking her to show us straitjackets, handcuffs and other stereotypical “horrors”. We are very embarrassed about the reputation of the profession and we successfully pass the test, proving that we came here not for “yellow sensations”, but out of great interest.
The museum premises are small - 3 former chambers. Alla Vasilievna seats us at a round carved table in the first, largest hall, and begins her detailed story about the history of the hospital.
The mayor of Moscow in 1885-1893 was Nikolai Aleksandrovich Alekseev. Try to compare the efficiency and love for his city of this city manager with the mayor of the capital who recently “lost his trust.”
Thanks to Alekseev, water supply and sewerage appeared in Moscow (before that, the city of one and a half million people was dotted with fetid cesspools), the first slaughterhouses were built (the current Mikoyanovsky meat processing plant) and cattle were no longer slaughtered anywhere in the city, as in wild Arab countries, on Red Square in 1890- In 2006, the old shopping arcades were demolished and a prototype of the current GUM was built, a new city council building was built on Voskresenskaya Square, as well as several schools and vocational schools, the Tretyakov Gallery was opened there, and much more. Alekseev was a strong manager and did not fuss with officials; he demanded reports on all his decrees within a week, and did not engage in populist Saturday riding around the city criticizing other people’s work. With him, Moscow ceased to be a big village (although sometimes one has to doubt this).
One day, doctors from the oldest psychiatric hospital in Moscow - Preobrazhenskaya - S.S. came to see him. Korsakov and V.R. Butskei asked to build another clinic in the city, since the resources of one were not enough. Alekseev was inspired by the doctors’ idea and began collecting money to build a hospital.
Many philanthropists responded to his call to help solve this problem, sometimes with the stipulation that several beds would be assigned to their families for life. Alekseev used all possible methods for the benefit of the business; they say that in front of one merchant he even knelt right in the dirt when he answered his question about help in construction “as you ask, so I give.”
Not a single patron was forgotten. A list of the names of those who helped in the construction is kept in the museum and carved on a memorial on the hospital grounds. The list contains the famous names of Botkin and Tretyakov.
A plot of land was purchased for construction for Serpukhovskaya outpost from the merchant Kanatchikov (hence the name Kanatchikov's dacha), and with Ermakov's money the Ermakovsky building was later built.
Nikolai Alexandrovich considered the construction of this hospital his life’s work; he personally checked the quality of the bricks for construction, took one from each batch and threw it on the floor. If a brick broke, the entire batch was sent back. The red brick building in an eclectic style with 70 cm thick walls, high ceilings, rooms for 4-5 patients and special durable glass in the windows was built by 1894. March 9, 1893 in the evening after one of the receptions, Alekseev went to see off a visitor and at the door ran into a young man who shot him several times with a pistol. Ironically, the young man - Andrianov - turned out to be mentally ill, who believed that he had invented a cure for influenza (flu) and tried unsuccessfully to get an appointment with Alekseev. Where the psycho got the gun from is a complex question; one can suspect that it was a well-thought-out action by the mayor’s enemies. Sklifosovsky immediately arrived at the scene, sutured the wound, but peritonitis began from the bullet that hit the stomach, and medicine at that time was not yet so advanced (X-rays were invented only in 1895, and penicillin was discovered only in 1928). Before his death, Alekseev bequeathed to complete the construction of the hospital.
Alekseev was buried by the whole city. About 200,000 Muscovites attended the funeral procession.
Death mask of N.A. Alekseeva is kept in the museum.
He was 40 years old.
They have been planning to erect a monument to Nikolai Alexandrovich in Moscow for several years, but somehow there is no time for it yet.
A separate exhibition in the museum is dedicated to the Alekseev family. Nikolai Alexandrovich’s cousin was the famous theater actor and director Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky.
On May 12 (old style), 1894, a new city psychiatric hospital was opened at Kanatchikova Dacha. There was a chapel on the second floor of the hospital, and by order of Alexander III, the hospital was named after Alekseev.
The first stage of the hospital was built according to the design of L.O. Vasilyeva. The second stage (opened in 1905) was built by A.F. Meissner. Butske was appointed chief physician.
Menu for patients in 1894: Polish borscht, sour cabbage soup, Schnell klops, Potato fight, Fried stellate sturgeon, Cranberry jelly, Lemon mousse, Razsolnik, Tubules - everything is so delicious.
Mostly peasants from neighboring villages worked in the hospital. The photo shows the apron worn by women from the medical staff.
Pyotr Petrovich Kashchenko was the head physician of the hospital for only 2 years and 7 months, but during this time he left the best memories of himself among the staff. Thanks to him, separate rooms were equipped for medical workers to live in; before that, they huddled in the basement, in conditions worse than those of the sick.
The photo shows the collective farewell to P.P. Kashchenko leaving for St. Petersburg (in the center with his wife) 1907.
From 1922 to 1994 Moscow Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 bore the name Kashchenko. Thanks to stories, anecdotes and songs, the word “Kashchenko” became a common noun, meaning a madhouse.
Questionnaire from 1926 for patient Sergei Kirillovich Sedov, who was diagnosed with alcoholic psychosis (blue fever), and was taken to the hospital by his wife. It contains a huge, detailed list of questions about the patient’s entire life from conception and childhood to the present, for example:
- Didn’t the patient’s parents suffer from mental illness, were they weak-minded, strange in character and habits, were they habitual drunkards, criminals, or did they attempt suicide?
- Did either parent drink wine or vodka and in what quantities?
- How did the wine work and was there delirium tremens?
- Did the patient’s conception coincide with the illness or intoxication of one or both parents?
- Was the mother sick during pregnancy, did she have any moral shocks, did she lead a quiet life, did she indulge in excesses, did she drink vodka and wine, did she get bruises, did she work too much?
- Is there any relationship between the parents?
- What nationality did your parents belong to?
- Which parent is the patient most like?
- Were there any relatives suffering from hysteria, epilepsy, St. Witt, headaches, neuralgia, paralysis or other nervous diseases, as well as physical deformities and developmental disabilities, such as deaf-muteness, stuttering, etc.?
- How was the patient fed: breastfed or artificially?
- Have you had any brain seizures, convulsions, night screams or fears? Was there any sleepwalking or bedwetting?
- Was the child given wine or poppy seeds in early childhood (for sleep, etc.)?
- Did the child fall from a height and have any ear diseases?
- Did he have sexual intercourse too early, did he have masturbation?
- Was there any hypocrisy or outstanding religiosity?
- Was there an excessive predominance of fantasy?
- What was the patient's social status? Was he pleased with him?
- Were there constant quarrels at home, and what role did the patient play in them? Did he cause the quarrels or did they not depend on him?
- Have you used holiday homes, sanatoriums, diet cafeterias, etc. Did you do physical education?
- Did you abuse sexual intercourse excessively? was there any improper sexual intercourse?
Old restored table
Ilya Natanovich Kaganovich was the chief physician of the hospital from 1930 to 1950. In 1950, he was removed from his post as head physician of the hospital with a scandal.
Whistle, you can guess why. There are different cases.
During the Great Patriotic War, the hospital housed a center for the treatment of wounded with traumatic brain injuries. The main method of treatment for the mentally ill was Electroconvulsive therapy. A scientifically proven, although still highly controversial and controversial, treatment method in which a seizure is caused by passing an electrical current through the brain of a patient under general anesthesia in order to achieve a therapeutic effect. Medicines, as you understand, were tight during the war.
Doctors and nurses who worked during the war are remembered and honored
The album “From charity for mental patients to active methods of treatment”, made and donated by hospital staff I.N. Kaganovich. History of psychiatry in pictures.
Notice the medicine wheel. Hamsters in home cages run around in about the same ones.
Dead hour. It sounds very calming.
There have never been any barbaric methods of treatment in hospital No. 1. From day one, straitjackets have been banned, although one hangs as an exhibit in a corner of the history of psychiatry. To pacify violent patients, wrapping with wet sheets was usually used.
A brief excursion into the history of psychiatry in the Middle Ages.
The museum contains an extensive collection of scientific works on psychiatry
Including works of art. For example, the familiar book “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by the famous acid artist Ken Kesey.
Remember a few rules just in case.
Sports awards of hospital employees won in various sports and other competitions.
At the moment, exclusively humane and effective methods of treating mentally ill people are used for treatment.
Drug treatment
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy was used from the first days of the hospital in special rooms in departments and in outdoor work. The first occupational doctor was S.S. Stupin. Previously, the hospital even had its own country farm, where patients raised livestock to supply the hospital.
The beauty of the hospital territory is the result of the painstaking work of the experienced agronomist Rostislav Stepanovich Medvedyuk. The gladioli he bred more than once took prizes at exhibitions. This man is a true enthusiast of his business. He turned down a better paying job because he couldn't leave the hospital.
In the greenhouse and garden, he and the sick plant flowers and various ornamental plants, and in 1980, for Victory Day and the Olympics, on his initiative, 8 silver spruce trees were planted. Rostislav Stepanovich's dream is to grow a cedar grove. Just listen, the entire history of the hospital (and, more broadly, of our entire country) rests solely on enthusiasts.
Probably the only remaining pioneer camp in the country still operates for the hospital’s young patients.
Non-standard methods of treatment coexist with great religiosity.
The Russian Orthodox Church is paying more and more attention to medical institutions. The temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” at the hospital was consecrated on October 25, 1896.
During the Soviet period, when the hospital church was closed, it was used for administrative purposes. And only on May 25, 1994, the temple was restored and consecrated again. In 1996, on the territory of the clinic, in memory of its founder Nikolai Alekseev, a chapel was built and consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
Cultural therapy
It is no secret that many generally recognized geniuses did not always have impeccable mental health, to put it mildly. And some even ended their days within the walls of psychiatric hospitals. The museum also houses several collections of literary works by doctors who worked at the hospital. An extremely entertaining read.
One of the poems features the psycho Marx.
A poem about renovations in a hospital lobby. Comparing such things with the works of the same beloved Kharms, you involuntarily draw analogies and think about diagnoses in absentia.
The artistic works of patients deserve a separate discussion.
Selected paintings by schizophrenics are also carefully studied and published in separate catalogues.
Altered facial proportions, as in Modigliani's paintings, are usually characteristic of works by people with schizophrenia.
The club on the hospital grounds contains a vernissage of the patients’ best works. The curator of the collection, Eduard Konstantinovich, can talk for a long time about each work separately, about the general style of the disease, about the typical themes of the works.
Looking at these pictures, you experience some kind of mixture of deep understanding and fear, from how accurately some hidden experiences are artistically reflected and how understandable they are to you. Unfortunately (because we didn’t see them that day) and fortunately (because everyone will be able to see them), the most interesting works have now gone to an exhibition that will soon be held in Moscow.
_thumb_500_333.jpg)
On the day of our visit, there were several police vehicles, ambulances, a bomb disposal department, and a fire service on the hospital grounds. Surely someone called and said that there was a bomb planted on the premises. Maybe crazy, who knows.
Unfortunately, the museum is not open to the general public. Alla Vasilievna and her young assistant Marina (also an enthusiast, a girl with great interest in studying the history of medicine) conduct 2-3 excursions a week for patients, medical students and new hospital employees. To get into the museum without being a representative of one of these groups, you need to get permission from the head physician, and he already has enough to do, so I won’t leave any contacts or phone numbers here. Anyone who really wants it can easily find them on the Internet. It's all so exciting.
The girl is 10 years old. Doesn't attend school. She is inaccessible to productive contact, talks to herself all the time, cannot stay in place, is restless, does not answer questions, and actively gesticulates. Experiences massive verbal hallucinosis: argues, talks, obeys instructions from “voices.” A girl's attention can only be attracted during the drawing process. Draws non-existent animals.
David Nebreda - David Nebreda
David Nebreda de Nicolás(David Nebreda) was born on 08/01/1952 in Madrid. Spanish self-taught photographer. An artist who became famous for photographs of his body.
Graduated from the academy fine arts in Madrid. In 1971, at the age of 19, he distanced himself from his parents and stopped talking. From June to September 1972, he was for the first time undergoing compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital with a diagnosis of “paranoid schizophrenia, continuous type” (a total of 5 hospitalizations).
As he says, his life is pain. And this main topic his paintings.
From 1983 to 1989, David Nebreda painted a series of self-portraits that visually depicted his physical suffering.
From May to October 1989 and from June to October 1990, the first series of color photographs was created (the process was interrupted by two involuntary hospitalizations). This is a period of intense photographic activity and acute preoccupation with death. David Nebreda calls this the period of “brain invasion.”
After a while, David Nebreda covers the mirrors in his house with paper so that he can only look at himself “through self-portraits.”
Yes, I observed and studied the stranger who appeared in it [the mirror]. This was the period of the first series of color photographs. And from then on, when that hole opened up in my head, I decided that I would never look in the mirror again [. . .]
From 1992 to 1997, when David Nebreda emerges from the worst crisis of his life (nine months in prison), he lives in a state of isolation, “physical and mental quasi-paralysis.” In the second series of color photographs, the geometry is much clearer.
Audio recordings of conversations with a patient with schizophrenia, the patient explains his drawing.
Speech is replete with complex semantic constructions and terms, often used without understanding them. true meaning. The patient is interested in the process of thinking itself, and not the final thought. Reasonable thinking is devoid of clear content. The patient expresses himself inconsistently, floridly, and considers problems from the point of view of the most abstract positions (cosmology, religion, philosophy).
Sick broadcasts, wanting to “tell the world something.” Special vocabulary, special turns of phrase, a special position of the speaker, a special pathos intonation in the content of the monologue appear against the background of affective preoccupation, an increased tendency to make value judgments.
