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| From the Prinzhorn Collection |
Someone might say
that insanity is the lack of tools to understand the real world.
Madness, in the
discipline of physics for example, could be exemplified by the
ignorance of the basic principle of conservation of energy.
A person who does
not understand or unknown this principle, it seems a crazy person to
the other people with basic skills.
While, the patient
without the most basic knowledge, could spend a lifetime to solve an
impossible problem to solve, further worsening their own state.
And besides, could
eventually add more and more vicious circles of those who already we
have normally in the head
Education and proper
teaching is the best antidote to ward off a little the madness in our
lives.
I will illustrate
this with a drawing of the Prinzhorn Collection.
Part of the therapy
practiced in the mental institution run by Hans Prinzhorn,
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Prinzhorn ) was to propose to
internal patients to conduct drawings and diagrams in which patients
express their concerns, concerns or ideas in general.
The drawing
represents one of many attempts of a patient to figure out how to
build a bicycle propelled by perpetual motion: I mean that as the
bicycle moves, the bicycle exploits a supposed energy power, and the
bicycle moves forward and accelerates itself, without help of the
bicycle rider.
Some months later: More info about education may cut dementia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/health/education-may-cut-dementia-risk-study-finds.html