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The German sculptor, writer and activist Dorothea Buck (1917–2019) was a psychiatric patient in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Political systems and medical interventions changed, and predominantly somatic etiology, denying meaning in ‘psychoses’, persisted. Dorothea, forcefully sterilized, had long rejected the ‘brutal sanity’ she encountered and finally embraced madness as meaningful, potentially leading to ‘self-discovery’. She became a key figure of the survivor movement, of collaborative practices such as ‘trialogue’ and of advocacy for the expertise of the mad. |
