Things can be
presented so seriously that you need a great deal of humour to see the message
7
sessions with Doctor Klik. Unplugged. Videoen
Dr. Klik.
1st
Session. Introduction. The raving mentality of medical science
Welcome to the camera man. We are pleased to having
you with us in this exiting house! Today we want to deal with some very
serious topics. Generally, you should not ridicule serious matters. Sometimes,
however, matters can be so serious that you have to ridicule them to
realize the true meaning.
We are going to have closer look at a psychiatrist's
education. You can't, however, receive education as a psychiatrist. You can
receive an education as a medical practitioner, and then you can receive
practical training in a psychiatric section and eventually become a
psychiatrist. You don't learn so much about the mentality or psyche the psyche
doesn't seem to be a part of medical science. If you do talk about mentality,
mostly it's in the sense of "raving mentality" the word itself
doesn't really mean anything. It looks very much like the work of art, hanging
on this wall. It may also be described as a kind of "raving
mentality". It has been created by a former resident of Gaderummet like a portrait of the core of Gaderummet.
Yes. I think this is the essence. May I introduce myself? My name is Doctor Klik. I shall try to explain this extensive universe of
psychical problems, psychical destabilisation and psychical ...
"whatever".
2nd
Session.
Education and method
Welcome to Doctor Klik's
training seminar. We are going to evaluate on how psychiatrists may be
supported after their training when they are going to help people in distress.
We are bringing into our treatment room not into the studio, as you might think a psychiatrist
with his patient. Before doing this, however, as it is an extremely delicate
matter to deal with very vulnerable human beings, we must examine the function
and nature of a psychiatrist. And here we have a very very
long history. During thousands of years at the beginning of our social history,
we simply killed these people who were a burden to the community. And for the
last 200 years, when becoming more concerned about humanity, we just locked
them up. And since 1950 - 1960, where special medicine was developed, they have
been allowed to come out among us normal people if they were properly
medicated, and so did not seem like the rest of us. The way you train
psychiatrists to deal with strange behaviour, which you don't really understand
and which has been unknown for many years, is to bring all these people with
deviant behaviour on a big stage with their therapist. Then a lot of new
colleagues, who haven't tried this before, are watching the show. Then we have
the old professors and nestors
sitting behind making sure that everything is done properly. And if the
therapist doesn't use the right treatment according to the person's diagnose,
they of course interfere. It may seem improper, but you also express your
opinion loudly from your seat in the auditorium, if you disagree with the diagnose or find it too vague. End of 2nd session.
3rd
Session. The
long march towards the patient
Welcome to the third session of the training seminar.
When working with a thing like this, it is very important that your appearance
is trustworthy. No dirty fingernails, no distracting details that may bring
confusion and lead the patient's thoughts to yourself. Only the patient should
be in focus because the disease of the mind is in there somewhere and must be
diagnosed so you can define it, build it up and treat it. That is why it's
important what you wear. Your dressing should emphasise the seriousness of the
situation so the patient believes in you. This procedure has proved to be a
gentle expulsion of the vicious ideas that medicine is bad for you. We shall
now try to arrange a session where the patient will accept his medicine better than his
own mother!
4th
Session. The
reliable argumentation
Welcome to this 4th session. As you may have noticed I
am wearing serious work clothes. But this is indeed a very serious mission.
When approaching a task any
task, for that matter, even going to the loo and wiping your ass then you have to
prepare in your mind the task at hand. Otherwise it's impossible. The
difference between even the most incompetent builder, whose houses fall apart,
and for instance the bee is that man is able to build up the project in his
mind before realising it. And we have to work with a human being. Let's assume
this is it. Let's also assume that it has gone down with a disease in the mind.
We put it here. Now, how do you treat a person like this? We know it's a
difficult problem, so probably nobody knows the answer. You check out the
availability of pills. There are different sizes. The big pill is called a
horse-pill. There are also different colours. Due to budget reductions in Gaderummet we only have one blue colour. Fortunately we
don't distribute pills, because then they would all have to be blue. Now, how
does a pill like this work? It's a complicated process, but extensive
experimental studies have indicated that their effects are similar to the well
known euphoriants of our culture, alcohol, cannabis
and a lot of other drugs. They may produce a temporary change of your emotional
life you
may even have some imaginations that you have never experienced before imaginative
thoughts and nice feelings that you want to repeat, so therefore you want to
keep on taking the pills, and eventually you become a drug addict. Also, some
times when your are down, things that you can't
control may pop up. Fortunately, there are other pills that can prevent this
from happening or
increase the effect if you like. Many pill addicts are quite familiar with
their local pharmacy! They can be divided in UPS and DOWNS. They can adjust
their lives almost like a small engine which is always top-tuned without
standing still
without ever sleeping, so to speak. Surely, there must be other solutions than
pills, you may ask or think. And the answer to this is very simple. NO! End of
4th session.
5th-6th
Session.
Side-effects
Please remember that this is serious business. So you
have to adapt your terms to the situation at hand. Before continuing our
training sessions for psychiatrists and approach real human beings with mental
difficulties, it is important to reflect on what might go wrong. In this 5th
session we are going to look at the side-effects. For today's session I have
brought a very special specimen of a patient who unfortunately has become quite
small... But still fully functional. All movements. Doesn't tip over. And
finally when not moving he's
standing very still! End of 6th session.
7th
Session.
Beware
Welcome to this 7th session.
In the 6th session we realised that the side-effects
due to a treatment like that can be very severe. Here it is obvious. But we also
have to admit that it could have been much worse. And when, finally, the
patient doesn't move, then he doesn't even shake! You
could almost believe that the patient is dead and maybe that is what the patient wanted. But
things might turn out even worse. Here is another example. These are also
side-effects. Being a therapist you should be happy that the patient is unable
to speak, because then the patient can't complain, and in this case we have
also made sure that there is no complaints commission for small elephants, who
are maltreated by therapists, you can complain about. We have discussed a lot
why things could develop like this in some cases with good side-effects, in other cases
with bad side-effects. This little elephant's girlfriend is not happy. Two tons
bigger! Of course, it might be the pill which is defective. This may be due to
the fact that, when treating them, we forgot to put cloths and other stuff on
the table, so when facing a very emotional situation you could cry. Instead
they attacked the therapists. So, to all of you who might get the unfortunate
thought not to cry when handkerchiefs are available: Beware! Thank you and
good-bye. Next week...
TVGaderummet.tv television
February 2008