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Poppy Shakespeare è un film televisivo inglese del 2008, diretto da Benjamin Ross e tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Clare Allan. Trama. Poppy Shakespeare è una nuova paziente, sana di mente, di un reparto psichiatrico del nord di Londra, al quale è arrivata vestita a festa insistendo di non essere malata di mente.
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Poppy Shakespeare. Poppy Shakespeare is a 2006 British novel and channel 4 2004 film about mental illness by Clare Allan. It tells the story of day patients at a mental health hospital. The central characters are Poppy Shakespeare, a new patient, and "N", a long-term patient.
- Clare Allan
- Bloomsbury
- 3 April 2006
- United Kingdom
31 mar 2008 · With Anna Maxwell Martin, Tessa Peake-Jones, Claire Benedict, Kolade Agboke. N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
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- Drama
- Benjamin Ross
- 2008-03-31
31 mar 2008 · The beauty of Poppy Shakespeare. Based on the best-selling novel by Clare Allan, this Channel 4 drama is a tragic and ironic love story. Benjamin Ross. Mon 31 Mar 2008 06.00 EDT. Poppy...
- Abstract
- The Nature/Nurture Debate: Degeneration Versus Institutionalization
- Psychoanalysis and Alternative Love-Objects
- Moral Therapy, Anti-Psychiatry and The Decline of The Asylum
- Demonized Doctors: Money as The Root of All Evil
- Psychiatry as Pure Science: Evidence, Controls, and Quotas
- The Recovery Movement: Renegotiating Patient–Doctor Relationships
- Conclusion
In her 2006 novel, Poppy Shakespeare, Clare Allan presents the reader with a thoroughly twenty-first-century London text, embedded in which is also found a brief history of approaches to madness through the ages. Within the contemporary setting of the Dorothy Fish mental health outpatient centre and the characters that we meet there, including our ...
Poppy Shakespeare's originality owes much to the distinctive voice of its narrator. The modern and urban qualities of the book are apparent in this vernacular voice from the opening sentence; before, even, in the first chapter's heading: ‘How it all begun’.3The novel is narrated by a character known only as N, a woman (it transpires, although this ...
Although Poppy Shakespeare is as critical of the lackadaisical administration of the talking cure at the day centre as it is of other approaches in treatment (such as ECT and the psychosurgical methods previously mentioned), the novel is not opposed to psychotherapy itself. In fact one of the harshest criticisms of current MHS provision in the text...
Poppy plays a central role for the reader as well as N, providing us with a sane person's reaction to the everyday (textual) occurrences and environment of a mental health outpatient facility. N's position as a guide for both Poppy and the reader suggests that the implied reader, like Poppy, is a relative stranger to the internal workings of MHS. N...
The idea of advances in both treatment and social attitudes is also undermined by the name of the hospital in the text: the Abaddon. Not only carrying echoes of the word abandon, the literal meaning of Abbadon is ‘hell’ or ‘the devil’ and in the Hebrew language, it equates to ‘destruction’.17 Such naming brings to mind the mediaeval period and subs...
Diabolus is also a believer in psychiatry as ‘a pure science; I always say, in its purest form one doesn't need patients at all’ (PS, p. 195). Once again we are returned to images of the dehumanization of patients in Diabolus's approach, as previously seen in N's simile of dog-training. Yet, here the patient is not considered an animal – he or she,...
As the humorous depiction of waiting lists older than Jesus and the semi-comic demonization of the Abbadon's doctors indicate, we are not being invited to confuse fiction with fact by this novel – its satirical hyperbole and stylistic blending of social with almost magical realism disallow this. Nevertheless, despite its pointedly fictional nature,...
Roy Porter asks whether the policy changes that heralded care in the community in MHS would produce their own ‘literature of protest’ as the asylum had,33 and with Clare Allan's Poppy Shakespeare, the answer is clearly yes. However, as well as forceful remonstration against the continuing promotion of psychological and pharmaceutical dependency, th...
- Annabel Cox
- 2014
by Benjamin Ross. synopsis. “N” has lived in the institutionalised world of a North London psychiatric ward for years upon years, and doesn’t want to change a thing about it. The turning point in her life comes with a new patient, an elegant and temperamental black woman named Poppy Shakespeare, who insists she is not insane.
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