Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

My life in a lunatic asylum

After a while I forgot what the bounds of normal behaviour were

‘I can vouch for the fact that one gets to enjoy the wider parameters to be found in a psychiatric ward’. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Limited. / Alamy Stock Photo 
issue 11 March 2023

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