John Robins

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2,358 appearances 15 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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How Do You Cope? · Scout Tzofiya Bolton: 'Trust the patient' · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

I don't know.

Where does the poetry start and the psychosis end?

Yeah, there's this wonderful... You feel like they're actually inhabiting the same creative space in a way.

At the start of the book, you have your psychiatric report, which was the judge asked to be made.

Reading that is so clear.

It's very well written.

It's very empathetic in a lot of ways.

And it sort of seems impossible to think, I'll send that person to prison.

Even though, reading that, I'm thinking, this person shouldn't be in a prison, prison had a transformative impact on you in some negative ways, but in some very positive ways as well, like you mentioned earlier.

What do you think should have happened to you in an ideal world?

And do you have mixed feelings about the fact that something that perhaps

seems unfair to send the subject of that psychiatric port to prison.

In many ways, it was a beginning of a new chapter in your life.

So when you're in prison, your medication is refined and you slowly come back to, I guess, an internal reality.

And that's really clear in the poetry.

The poetry gets, as the book goes on, does become slightly more grounded.

And I wonder what it was like to sort of come back to that self in such an unfamiliar place.

And I guess prison, you know, looking at it through a really optimistic lens is a real opportunity to have complete access to people at their moment of greatest need, whether that's for detox, rehab, psychiatric care, diagnoses.

You know, you have a captive audience of the most vulnerable people in society who are in danger of causing the most harm in some ways.

So what was your experience of what prison got really right for you in your case?

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