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

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.