From Mad in Argentina: Some of my artistic experiences were called psychotic outbreaks and treated in a compulsive, coercive and violent way. Today I describe these experiences as invisible, spontaneous or impulsive theatre. The process of renaming psychotic outbreaks as theatrical expressions took me years of research and different therapeutic stages to achieve a change of perspective and narrative about what science describes as a lack of awareness of illness and adherence to treatment on my part. The perspective of human rights in general, such as freedom of conscience and expression in particular, were the foundations in this path of knowledge that allowed me to become aware of what was really happening in my body. To do this, I had to begin by questioning what a body is, when its behavior becomes ill and how its behavior heals.
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