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First Online: 2 June 2018

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: The author received a research grant (Research Resources Bursary) from the Wellcome Trust (grant no. 198626/Z/15/Z). While undertaking the research, the author was a Visiting Fellow at the Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow.

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: ¹ See Gail Hornstein’s <i>Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in English</i> (2011).² Quite mistakenly, Showalter writes of Barnes as Laing’s patient when Laing only saw her for a few sessions prior to Kingsley Hall. Barnes was very much Berke’s patient; and, as Showalter fails to note, Berke’s and Laing’s views differ significantly.³ See for example Caminero-Santangelo 1998; Weiner 2005.⁴ Barnes’ unpublished sequel, <i>Attic-Archway-Devon,</i> is in the R. D. Laing archive at University of Glasgow, Special Collections [MS Laing V38]. Archival resources referred to in this article are all to be found in the R. D. Laing Archive, University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections Department. For these resources, I shall give just the appropriate call number in parentheses.⁵ See Attneave and Speck MS Laing L179/1-3.⁶ For further discussion of Sigal and Kingsley Hall, see Chapman 2014 b.⁷ See Chapman 2014a for further discussion of <i>Knots.</i>⁸ My own interest in Barnes dates from having lived as a resident in a Philadelphia Association household in the 1990s. While I was not brought to the household by <i>Two Accounts</i>, it was common for visitors and prospective residents to come to the household expecting to find, or wanting to have, a Barnes-style re-birth experience. The 1960s having long gone, such people were disappointed on both counts.