![]() This essay follows on from an article published in this journal about Barnes (Chapman 2020) that explores Laing’s conception of madness as a voyage, Barnes’ ‘journey’ and spiritual development, her becoming an artist, the Hall’s household politics, and difficulties encountered in the project of moving beyond the binary, hierarchical staff-patient opposition. Mary Barnes: Two Accounts of a Journey through Madness by Mary Barnes and her therapist Joseph Berke, both of whom lived at the Hall, has so far been our chief source on the household. Turning to the archival sources enables not only the further exploration of already known figures (such as Laing and Mary Barnes, the Hall's "star" resident) but also allows us, through decentering research into Laingian psychiatry, to hear voices of Hall residents and visitors previously unrecognized by scholarship. While Laing established the Hall, resided there initially and continued to visit until its closure, he had little involvement in the Asylum book project, only taking part in it towards his death and contributing little (a brief introductory section and smatterings of editorial work). While I am concerned here with Laing and Kingsley Hall, my emphasis is more on the Laing network, people clustered around the famous psychiatrist and those living at, or who visited, the Hall. RUMPUS ROOM URBAN DICTIONARY ARCHIVEScholarship drawing on Laing's archive has thus far resulted in studies of his development as a psychiatrist (Beveridge 2011), Laing and religion (Miller 2009, 2012) and the significance of space(s) in his thought and practice (McGeachan 2014, 2016). Laing, and here I add another perspective to the renaissance of interest in Laingian psychiatry. Such focus is very much bound up with attention to R. This article contributes to renewed interest in Kingsley Hall (Fowler 2001 Harris 2012 Chapman 20 McGeachan, 2014a and 2016 Marmion 2015 Mullan and Moreton, 2017 Wall 2017). Detailed analysis of such material lies beyond my present scope, as (for the most part) does a consideration of interview transcripts. Much of the Asylum material focuses on post-Kingsley Hall therapeutic communities established by Hall veterans. My primary focus is on written narratives-commissioned texts composed by those who assumed the authority to write publicly circulated accounts. Documents include narratives written by visitors and residents, letters and poems, as well as transcriptions of audio-recordings. A small number of documents have appeared on the internet, but most are in the Laing archive at the Special Collections Department, University of Glasgow Library. While there have been brief references to the Asylum archive (Harris 2012, McGeachan 2016), no one has yet drawn widely on the materials. ![]() To learn more, see the privacy policy.Here I focus mostly on unresearched archival materials associated with Asylum: To Dwell in Strangeness, an unpublished (and incomplete) book about Kingsley Hall (1965-70) and other communities in London, England, run under the auspices of the Philadelphia Association (PA), a mental health charity set up by the radical psychiatrist, R. Please note that Urban Thesaurus uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. RUMPUS ROOM URBAN DICTIONARY CODESpecial thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: and you might like to check out the growing collection of curated slang words for different topics over at Slangpedia. There is still lots of work to be done to get this slang thesaurus to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it. Please also note that due to the nature of the internet (and especially UD), there will often be many terrible and offensive terms in the results. Or you might try boyfriend or girlfriend to get words that can mean either one of these (e.g. The search algorithm handles phrases and strings of words quite well, so for example if you want words that are related to lol and rofl you can type in lol rofl and it should give you a pile of related slang terms. ![]() The higher the terms are in the list, the more likely that they're relevant to the word or phrase that you searched for. Note that this thesaurus is not in any way affiliated with Urban Dictionary.ĭue to the way the algorithm works, the thesaurus gives you mostly related slang words, rather than exact synonyms. The official Urban Dictionary API is used to show the hover-definitions. These indexes are then used to find usage correlations between slang terms. The Urban Thesaurus was created by indexing millions of different slang terms which are defined on sites like Urban Dictionary. ![]()
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