Gerlinde Obermeier
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Gerlinde Obermeier was an extravagantly emotional writer with a powerful feminist perspective which extended into a critique of the mental health
establishment as essentially oppressive.
She wrote I Will Not and San Francisco, of Course (or Positively San Francisco as she herself translated the title).
Obermeier has been credited by some critics with mystical insights in her writing. This perhaps makes too much of a visit to India
. In 1976 she spent three weeks in India with Swami Paramananda Saraswati. This visit is detailed in Malachi O'Doherty
's memoir, I Was A Teenage Catholic. It seems more appropriate to read her explorations of madness as relating to a celebration of anarchic thinking than as grounded in Eastern religion.
She died by suicide
in her early forties in Vienna
in 1984.
See also: List of dramatists.
Mental health
Mental health describes either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and...
establishment as essentially oppressive.
She wrote I Will Not and San Francisco, of Course (or Positively San Francisco as she herself translated the title).
Obermeier has been credited by some critics with mystical insights in her writing. This perhaps makes too much of a visit to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. In 1976 she spent three weeks in India with Swami Paramananda Saraswati. This visit is detailed in Malachi O'Doherty
Malachi O'Doherty
Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist, author and broadcaster in Northern Ireland.He is the producer and presenter of the audio blog Arts Talk ....
's memoir, I Was A Teenage Catholic. It seems more appropriate to read her explorations of madness as relating to a celebration of anarchic thinking than as grounded in Eastern religion.
She died by suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
in her early forties in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
in 1984.
See also: List of dramatists.