Yesterday I found some pictures on the internet about women that had been in a mental Hospital in the 19th century. Those pictures had been taken by Dr Hugh Welch Diamond in England. He had taken those pictures because he believed through photography, if he could confront the crazy women with their own portraits it could make them come out of their madness. He was described as pseudoscientific (a fake scientist).
I believe that photography could have a therapeutic power for all people that like to make images as well as for the viewers that like to see them. Photography helps me to understand my own madness. When I take a photo, this encloses my thoughts. In other words, one picture can contain my ideas, the music I listen to, the movies I have watched, the books I have read, the paintings I have seen, the food I have eaten, the things I have lost, everything in my head. All those create my view, my own interpretation of the world. So, when someone looks a photo, and this can connect any idea or evoke anything in another person from the therapeutic power from the images work is working.
Lewis Carroll wrote “here we are all crazy, but only in a few, delirium reaches intolerable dimension.”
The anatomy lesson
Photo by Freddy Alborta 1967
Exhibition Che Guevara’s corpse
tower of the silent 
Your words “one picture can contain my ideas” are interesting to me. Because I don’t pay attention to put some special emotions in them especially negative feelings. I have never take pictures at the moment when I feel sadness. Maybe I can try to let them contain my idea or emotions.
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when we feel sad, we can see other things around us that before wasn’t here.
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