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Mary Barnes

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British artist (1923-2001)

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Mary Edith Barnes was an English artist and writer with schizophrenia and became a successful painter. She is particularly known for documenting her experience at R. D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London.

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Mary Edith Barnes was an English artist and writer with schizophrenia and became a successful painter. She is particularly known for documenting her experience at R. D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London. She is referenced in the book The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson and Thomas Szasz's Schizophrenia.

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United Kingdom
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Artists
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Artist
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deceased
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Lived 1923 to 2001 · aged 78
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