Not an idyll

This is the story of Angelo, who was sent to an institution for children at the age of 3. He tells of his experiences in Alberto Gaino's book "l manicomio dei bambini". I was tied to the bed or to the radiator when I was four. So I became a rebel. I didn't just run away. I also answered with a raised voice. Coda, the electropsychiatrist, had arrived. He shocked me fifty-two times. I didn't remember how long they had been. I stole my medical records and it says that Coda made me put the rubber between my teeth and the two caps on my temples the whole time. To tell you the truth, and I remember this without consulting the papers, depending on how it turned, it gave me the electricity in my ...View all