Psychiarty

Do we share a c-gene?

The video for The Avalanches "Frontier Psychiatrist" directed by Kuntz and Macquire.

There is also a short animation by Jonathan Garlick illustrating the lyrics of this song using only motion typography.

"Freud with a patient" - a sculpture from sand by Spanish sculptor Aarón Jiménez at the International Sand Sculpture Festival in 2009 in Portugal.

Psychiatrist office in Hong Kong designed by Ted Ngai in 2009.

A campaign film produced by the National Autistic Society, a UK charity. Such misunderstandings are common because autism is a "hidden" disability.

The interior design for a mental health clinic in Akasaka, Tokyo by Nendo Inc. The clinic specializes in total mental health care: in addition to standard consultations with a psychiatrist, it offers such services as corporate consulting and support for patients returning to the workplace. Rather than getting patients back to a 'zero', a neutral starting place, the traditional model for mental health care, the clinic aims to provide patients with something extra: a further richness in their daily lives that they did not have before starting treatment.

The interior design is an attempt to express this philosophy in space. The 'doors' that line the walls of the clinic do not open, and 'ordinary' parts of the walls open up into new spaces. The consultation rooms are entered by sliding the bookshelves sideways. The door at the end of the hallway opens onto a window; the amount of light in the hallway is controlled by opening and closing the door.

By providing alternate perspectives for viewing the world, and avoiding being trapped by pre-existing perceptions, the interior allows visitors (and staff members) to experience opening new doors in their hearts, one after the other.

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It could be a great shrink's office. Though actually it's an "ordinary" room in an "ordinary" apartment.

Refurbishment of Humlegarden apartment made by Tham & Videgard Hansson Architects in 2006-2008.