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Episode 8 - Doors to Freedom - Escaping the Establishment

The Hysterics were considered to be somewhere between sane and mad, but kept incarcerated for life. Who wouldn't try to escape? Louise 'Augustine' Gleides did try and did escape.

Doors to freedom - Episode 7 - The Locked In Experiments

What was hysteria? Could the experiments conducted on the young women prove that hysteria existed, or were those subjected to the locked in experimental treatments merely lab rats?

Doors to freedom - Episode 6 - Imaging Hysteria: Poses and Performances

Artistic depictions of  Hysteria at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris: hypnosis in the lecture theatre and the fits in photographic studio.

episode 5 - doors to freedom - BackWards

Rhona wakes up laughing. Why is she in the BackWards?

Episode 4 doors to freedom - don't swallow the hysteriazine

don't talk to me about incarceration. we can only dream.

Episode 3 Doors to freedom - Can you open the doors to freedom without the keys?

Can you open the doors to freedom without the keys?

Episode 1 Doors to freedom - Who is the prisoner?

'Who is the prisoner?', asks Ben Okri in, 'The Freedom Artist'. But are we really all prisoners?

Episode 2 Doors to freedom - The locked door and the keeper of the keys

Why are the doors locked? Who is being kept safe? Because behind the locked doors is the forbidden.

rebelle yells

the made men who make women mad make rebelle yell.

the hysterixx are not laughing

getting out is impossible.