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I have been talking about children's classic books and nursery rhymes with my face book friends. I wonder how many of these were written in order to explain to children the effects of illness or the mental health behaviour of adults.

A brief ‘lay persons’, analysis of the two great Children’s classics.

This is my feelings about the possibly health condition and behaviour being explained by the stories in, ‘Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll”, and Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie.

I never liked 'Through the looking Glass', though I live' Peter Pan’.

I see Peter Pan, the story of the mischievious boy who never grew up as the child fiction explanation of the adult who needs supervision because they have lost their executive function and have a cognitive function disorder, or Frontal lobe degeneration and or dementia . I have a 'Peter Pan', and I'm Wendy the carer and I love our Never Never land, (eco-therapy), life.  Oh and there was a dog, in the Peter Pan story.

Through the Looking Glass, or Alice in Wonderland, I feel is probably an explanation to a child of an adult’s uncontrolled schizophrenia nightmare and it scared the heeby Jeeves out of me when I first read it as a child and saw the film and I still do not like the story. I do not choose nightmares as my reading entertainment :-)

 
 


Comments

Paulene

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 8:38:39 pm

How interesting!
I never thought of it this way before but your views have merit.
I've heard people talk of Alice story as a reference to LSD but I think from my professional experience, schizophrenia/psychosis IS very much like a bad trip that never ends?
I'll certainly be reading Peter Pan with a different ear next time :)

Thanks for sharing
xo

P

 

Kathy Shell

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 8:56:07 pm

Thanks for taking time to comment Paulene :-). Much appreachiated.

 

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