1925

In no.3 of La révolution surréaliste, Antonin Artaud criticizes the psychiatrists who think they have the right to “measure the spirit.” He feels the insane are victims of the domineering ideology and he claims for them “the right to their idea of reality and of all the acts which ensue this idea.”

At the mental hospital of Bel-Air near Geneva, Charles Ladame (1871-1949) opens a small museum of art asilaire.