Bernadette Brennan
speaker
419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we've got everything up to about 1922 or so.
You said in your introduction, no change, no change, no change.
So she sees this to start with.
And this is what's written in these casebooks.
And she's precisely because she says, this could have been me given a different century.
She's very intimately connected
concerned with these women instantly, because these are women's voices in these case books.
This is from the women's part of the asylum.
She then discovers Lucia, who was the first female, well, qualified as a, you know, got the diploma in psychiatry, I think it was, in Ireland in 1896.
But isn't that a great story?
That's a great story, and with her sister as well who trains as a doctor.
But Lucia, a 30-year-old, rocks up to this asylum and spends the rest of her life basically there until she retires, raises her children there, has outpatients in her house.
I mean, she lives in this asylum and treats these women for all these years.
And what she does is, and what the narrator discovers in these casebooks,
is that Lucia records the feelings of these women.
She records why they're there.
And so many of them are there because of poverty, postpartum psychosis, depression, and then some serious, serious mental disorders.
And we get story after story of these women.
I won't say too much there.
We can talk about that a bit more about naming them and bringing them to life.
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