Agnes Richter was a seamstress before she was committed to an Austrian mental institution. She spent her days embroidering secret messages into the linen of her uniform. The coping mechanisms of the insane is the topic of a new book by Gail Hornstein, PhD, called Agnes's Jacket.
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April 07, 2012
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It's comforting to know that you can be insane and still engineer a garment of that complexity - and spell - and handle a needle safely. And I think there are plenty of arguments that would place us all on the spectrum somewhere - and plenty of things that would seem like normal life that are actually classifiable as coping mechanisms. But not many as elegant as this jacket.
Posted by: Kristen | April 07, 2012 at 08:00 AM