Comments on: The Velvet Underground at the NY society for clinical psychiatry http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/the-velvet-underground-at-the-ny-society-for-clinical-psychiatry/ Sat, 12 May 2012 01:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: How to drive psychiatrists insane | GODLESS IN ITALY http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/the-velvet-underground-at-the-ny-society-for-clinical-psychiatry/comment-page-1/#comment-506488 How to drive psychiatrists insane | GODLESS IN ITALY Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:28:26 +0000 http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=568#comment-506488 [...] Here’s what happened: On January 13 1966, Warhol was invited to be the evening’s entertainment at the NY society for Clinical Psychiatry’s forty thir- annual dinner, held at Delmonico’s Hotel. Bursting into the room with a camera, as the Velvet Underground acoustically tortured the guests and Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick performed the ‘whip dance’ in the background, Rubin taunted the attending psychiatrists. Casting blinding lights in their faces, Rubin hurled derogatory questions at the esteemed members of the medical profession, including: ‘What does her vagina feel like? Is his penis big enough? Do you eat her out? As the horrified guests began to leave Rubin continued her interrogation: ‘Why are you getting embarrassed? You’re a psychiatrist; you’re not supposed to get embarrassed. The following day the NY Times reported on the event; their chosen headline, ‘Shock treatment for psychiatrists’, reveals the extent to which Rubin’s guerrilla tactics had inverted the sanctioned relationship between patient and doctor expert and amateur. [...] [...] Here’s what happened: On January 13 1966, Warhol was invited to be the evening’s entertainment at the NY society for Clinical Psychiatry’s forty thir- annual dinner, held at Delmonico’s Hotel. Bursting into the room with a camera, as the Velvet Underground acoustically tortured the guests and Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick performed the ‘whip dance’ in the background, Rubin taunted the attending psychiatrists. Casting blinding lights in their faces, Rubin hurled derogatory questions at the esteemed members of the medical profession, including: ‘What does her vagina feel like? Is his penis big enough? Do you eat her out? As the horrified guests began to leave Rubin continued her interrogation: ‘Why are you getting embarrassed? You’re a psychiatrist; you’re not supposed to get embarrassed. The following day the NY Times reported on the event; their chosen headline, ‘Shock treatment for psychiatrists’, reveals the extent to which Rubin’s guerrilla tactics had inverted the sanctioned relationship between patient and doctor expert and amateur. [...]

]]> By: How to drive psychiatrists insane | GODLESS IN ITALY http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/the-velvet-underground-at-the-ny-society-for-clinical-psychiatry/comment-page-1/#comment-506487 How to drive psychiatrists insane | GODLESS IN ITALY Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:28:26 +0000 http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=568#comment-506487 [...] Here’s what happened: On January 13 1966, Warhol was invited to be the evening’s entertainment at the NY society for Clinical Psychiatry’s forty thir- annual dinner, held at Delmonico’s Hotel. Bursting into the room with a camera, as the Velvet Underground acoustically tortured the guests and Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick performed the ‘whip dance’ in the background, Rubin taunted the attending psychiatrists. Casting blinding lights in their faces, Rubin hurled derogatory questions at the esteemed members of the medical profession, including: ‘What does her vagina feel like? Is his penis big enough? Do you eat her out? As the horrified guests began to leave Rubin continued her interrogation: ‘Why are you getting embarrassed? You’re a psychiatrist; you’re not supposed to get embarrassed. The following day the NY Times reported on the event; their chosen headline, ‘Shock treatment for psychiatrists’, reveals the extent to which Rubin’s guerrilla tactics had inverted the sanctioned relationship between patient and doctor expert and amateur. [...] [...] Here’s what happened: On January 13 1966, Warhol was invited to be the evening’s entertainment at the NY society for Clinical Psychiatry’s forty thir- annual dinner, held at Delmonico’s Hotel. Bursting into the room with a camera, as the Velvet Underground acoustically tortured the guests and Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick performed the ‘whip dance’ in the background, Rubin taunted the attending psychiatrists. Casting blinding lights in their faces, Rubin hurled derogatory questions at the esteemed members of the medical profession, including: ‘What does her vagina feel like? Is his penis big enough? Do you eat her out? As the horrified guests began to leave Rubin continued her interrogation: ‘Why are you getting embarrassed? You’re a psychiatrist; you’re not supposed to get embarrassed. The following day the NY Times reported on the event; their chosen headline, ‘Shock treatment for psychiatrists’, reveals the extent to which Rubin’s guerrilla tactics had inverted the sanctioned relationship between patient and doctor expert and amateur. [...]

]]> By: Frontier Psychiatrist http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/the-velvet-underground-at-the-ny-society-for-clinical-psychiatry/comment-page-1/#comment-9416 Frontier Psychiatrist Sun, 17 May 2009 19:56:52 +0000 http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=568#comment-9416 A quick trawl of the web seems to support the notion that LR had ECT. Here's a quote from a biography (via <a href="http://www.harborside.com/~equinox/ect4.htm" rel="nofollow">this website</a>) "Lou's conservative parents, Sidney and Toby Reed, sent their (17-year-old) son to a psychiatrist, requesting that he cure Lou of his homosexual feelings and alarming mood swings. . . . Lou suffered through eight weeks of shock treatments haunted by the fear that in an attempt to obliterate the abnormal from his personality, his parents had destroyed him" A quick trawl of the web seems to support the notion that LR had ECT. Here’s a quote from a biography (via this website)

“Lou’s conservative parents, Sidney and Toby Reed, sent their (17-year-old) son to a psychiatrist, requesting that he cure Lou of his homosexual feelings and alarming mood swings. . . . Lou suffered through eight weeks of shock treatments haunted by the fear that in an attempt to obliterate the abnormal from his personality, his parents had destroyed him”

]]> By: Neuroskeptic http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/the-velvet-underground-at-the-ny-society-for-clinical-psychiatry/comment-page-1/#comment-9413 Neuroskeptic Sun, 17 May 2009 18:41:57 +0000 http://frontierpsychiatrist.co.uk/?p=568#comment-9413 When they say "electric shock treatment" do you know if they mean ECT or shock aversion therapy? Two rather different things... When they say “electric shock treatment” do you know if they mean ECT or shock aversion therapy? Two rather different things…

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