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On the mental work

Madness ... what is madness? A terrible disease? The degeneracy of mankind? Avoiding the common sense of reality? In every science and every sphere of human activity on this issue will be the answer, but as a rule in all theories explaining this phenomenon madness will be characterized as a deviation from the norm. That deviation from the norm makes a person crazy. But what then is the norm? For a description of the same standard, under which should be equal to all the normal people? Where she had been laid face across which socially useful person unit of society, becomes an outcast, otchuzhdentsem, dangerous and insane patients who urgently need to be isolated from society and forced to heal? Maybe the whole thing in the world? They say that fools are living in a world similar to the one in which they live everyone else, but is it bad? Would be possible today's world such as we see it today, if all men since the beginning would have the same outlook? After all, for that would create something new, it is necessary to deviate from the norm, look at reality from a different angle, to resist the primitive fear of the unknown and lift the curtain behind which lie the new unknown creatures dwell. In each epoch can be traced people who were not afraid to be normal, whose ideology went far beyond the current standards at the time, Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Einstein, Tesla, they do not mind standard turned the world, broke the rules and framework of primitive exalted ideas before What we use and see today. It's always a deviation from the norm is bad? What is different from the world of lunatic genius of the world? Perhaps the genius of the same form of insanity? In today's world began to think about it, and began to create a variety of directions in art and in science, where the mentally ill or outsiders could show their unusual ability and outlook, that the first steps have already given great results. What was the surprise of the public when they learned that some of the patients in psychiatric hospitals and centers have incomprehensible to the average person mathematical ability. Some of them may have in mind to add and multiply complex cumbersome fractions, with a high accuracy of the numbers show the root, etc. In other patients manifested craving for art, painting, sculpting. There is a strong resemblance to the mental pictures great creations of artists surrealists such as Salvador Dali, Arno Brecker, Ernst Fuchs and others

Now search for and development of talent among the mentally ill is gaining popularity, people are starting to realize that mentally ill people are not able to get along in society also have their personality, can also feel and perceive the world, but in his own way, differently from all other . We can only help them to adapt and get along in our world, learn to interact with him, but in no case without destroying their identity, not suppressing their worldview, not hanging on their labels. After all, in whom one of them behind a mask of confusion and pain may well be hiding a man of genius, a creator, which is destined to bring into this world, something new.

(Based on site art-brut.info)