The Choking Angel
Franz Karl Bühler, "Der Würgengel" (The Choking Angel), 1909. "Established and circumscribed boundaries remain, at least in primeval...
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Sasha Durakov Warren
- Aug 31
Fortress of Longing
Emma Hauck, "Briefe an den Ehemann," 1909. "No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless one at the same time...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Jul 11
A Stable is a Boudoir to a Bedlamite: Marx on Asylum Psychiatry
We are currently living through a small renaissance of applications of Karl Marx’s work to the history and future development of mental...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Apr 5
Gheel, the Past or Future’s ‘Colony for the Mad’?
This is a part of a series on the treatment of madness before psychiatry. You can read my introduction here. I have added an ongoing list...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Mar 22
The Trans Body as Liberty's Limit in Szasz' Critique of Psychiatry
Thomas Szasz is easily among the most famous and infamous critics of psychiatry. His thesis that “mental illness is a myth” used to...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Mar 16
Madness Between Revolution and Failure: Georg Büchner and the Vormärz Generation
This was written after I talked with Dan and Max about Büchner's play Dantons Tod on The Unseen Book Club podcast found here. We had a...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Mar 8
The Siren Song of the History of Madness: On Foucault’s Doubles
This is a part of a series on the treatment of madness before psychiatry. You can read my introduction here. As I stated there,...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Feb 28
Approaching the question "What was madness before psychiatry?"
This text will be the first in a new series on pre-psychiatric care for the mad, or more precisely (since these didn’t always appear as a...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Dec 1, 2022
"Mental Health Workers" from the Mental Patients Liberation Front
Editorial note: The following is a transcription of an article published in the Mental Patients' Liberation Front's first issue of Our...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Oct 18, 2022
Updates and plan for the year
It's been a while since I've posted or added anything to the site and I've picked up a few new readers, so I figured Of Unsound Mind was...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Oct 6, 2021
Janus’ Sailboat: Notes on La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s Mad Method
Bruce, La Marr Jurelle. How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity. Duke University Press. Durham:...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Sep 30, 2021
A Corpse Among Corpses: Transcript and Annotated Shot List
The following is the transcript and a series of annotations of specific shots in the film A Corpse Among Corpses by Lyn Corelle, and...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Aug 5, 2021
Zines, Posters, and Newsletters
I'll keep updating this page with formatted zines, posters, newsletters and whatever else I am working on. In addition to formatting some...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- May 23, 2021
Open propositions for a strategic madness
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” –William Shakespeare, Hamlet. In lieu of the (hopefully) coherent syntheses of...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- May 23, 2021
Distress is a Weapon: the SPK's Strategic Struggle for Mental Wellness
This is part of a series of presentations on the history of radical mental health projects called Mental Health in Crisis. Find...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- May 9, 2021
Unreason Speaks!
This is part of a series of presentations on the history of radical mental health projects called Mental Health in Crisis. Find...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Apr 25, 2021
The Dream of the Outside: Deinstitutionalization, Anti-psychiatry, and the Move Into the "Community"
This is part of a series of presentations on the history of radical mental health projects called Mental Health in Crisis. Find...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Apr 10, 2021
Psychiatry Negated: Conflict and the Culture of Resistance in Italy and Brazil
This is part of a series of presentations on the history of radical mental health projects called Mental Health in Crisis. Find...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Mar 27, 2021
The Asylum is Sick: The Mental Institution from Medical Prison to Laboratory for Change
This is part of a series of presentations on the history of radical mental health projects called Mental Health in Crisis. Find...
Sasha Durakov Warren
- Mar 15, 2021
MHIC Presentation Series: Notes and Slideshows
Below are the notes and slideshows of my presentations for the Mental Health in Crisis talk series. The recordings can be found on the...
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