St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1. Reproductions made by a patient, a disturbed case of dementia praecox; pin or fingernail used to scratch paint from wall, top coat of paint buff color, superimposed upon a brick red coat of paint. Pictures symbolize events in patient’s past life and represent a mild state of mental regression. Undated, but likely early 20th century.
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St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. Wall of room in Ward Retreat 1. Reproductions made by a patient, a disturbed case of dementia...
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“Dementia Praecox” is an old term for what we now call schiozophrenia. I don’t really like it when we refer to any...
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it reminds me of an old school xstitch sampler.
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