crazy swede
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| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | writer, musician |
| Location | kävlinge, skåne, Sweden |
| Introduction | 63 y. o. psychiatric activist. Music comedian. (can combine both occupations.) inga.westman@bredband.net |
| Interests | Life, living and philosophy. |
| Favorite movies | Good psychiatric movies: Family Life (Ken Loach 1972), A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes 1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo´s Nest (Milos Forman 1975), The Snake Pit (with Olivia de Havilland in the performance of her life 1948), An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion 1990, based on Janet Frame´s book), Awakenings, Patch Adams. (Robin Williams as the clown/psychiatrist.) Great documentaries by Alan Curtis: The Living Dead, The Trap, The Century of the Self. |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Schubert, Britten, Shostakovitch. (and about a 100 other classical masters.) Dylan, Beatles. (and all the other pop icons from my youth.) Violeta Parra, Theodorakis, Bulat Okudszawa. Birgitte Grimstad, Arja Saijonmaa, Googoosh. Janet Baker, Aksel Schiotz, Marni Nixon. Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil, Myra Hess, Victor Schiöler, Victor Borge. Eva Dahlgren, Povel Ramel, Calle Jularbo. Café 33, Björn Afzelius, Mikael Wiehe, Svenska Akademien! |
| Favorite books | All books by Erich Fromm, Rollo May, Ronald Laing, Carl Rogers and Alice Miller. "Person to Person" by Barry Stevens. "Girl, interrupted" by Susannah Kaysen. "Les Misérables" by Victor Hugo. "The Body Artist" by Don DeLillo. Anything by Checkov and Jaan Kaplinski. The collected poems by Tomas Tranströmer. D:o by Emily Dickinson. And Gustaf Fröding. And Eeva Kilpi. |