James Franco and his moustache are soon making an appearance in Gothic drama, The Mad Whale; a film that tells of inmates at a women's
mental asylum who stage a theatrical production of Moby Dick.
Not exact matches
The Sudanese
asylum seeker,
who said he had been tortured and had over 200 scars on his body, was already suffering
mental health conditions when he went into detention.
Titled «La Creatrice,» the film is based on the true account of the sculptor Camille Claudel
who was injected into a
mental asylum by her family, spending her last thirty years in the nut house without ever touching her art again.
Then we get a horror tale about a Blair Witch tour guide (Jeffrey Donovan),
who's just been released from a
mental asylum and whose customers consist of a practicing Wiccan (Erica Leerhsen), two graduate students (Tristan Skyler and Stephen Barker Turner) writing a book about the Blair Witch, and a goth (Kim Director).
It follows maniacal Dr Feinstone
who escapes from a
mental asylum and sets up shop as a dentist in a small, unassuming town.
These three add a level of class to a film about four
mental patients — a child molester, a deranged war vet, a psycho preacher and someone known only as «The Bleeder» —
who escape their
asylum and attack the family of a new psychiatrist, whom they mistakenly believe killed their old doctor.
Which follows a reporter
who enters an abandoned
mental asylum following an anonymous tip, providing one of -LSB-...]
But Prinzhorn was hardly proposing a new aesthetic, certainly not one akin to that of the Surrealists,
who three years later would claim the practices of
mental patients as further evidence of the universally liberating forces of the unconscious (even if those «liberated» remained incarcerated in the
asylum).
Given the traumatic life experiences of many
asylum seekers
who, as a result, often present with
mental illnesses, it is likely that many more
asylum seekers should be accommodated by local authorities under s 21, NASS 1948 than are at present.
What this case illustrates is the relative ease with which
asylum seekers with
mental health difficulties, and
who have no other source of support, can pass the destitution plus test.
Human rights principles are, of course, designed to ensure that Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples, refugees,
asylum - seekers and new migrants, people with disability or
mental illness, women, the elderly, young people, people of faith, gay men and lesbians, people experiencing homelessness, detainees and prisoners, people living in remote and rural areas and, indeed, all
who suffer disadvantage have their inherent dignity respected and do not experience discrimination.