"I went through a whole battery of tests. They
gave me this Rorschach test and said: OK, what do you see? I said: I see a lion
and a cave... and I'd tell these whole long stories and they'd go: OK, that's
enough. And I'm like: 'Don't you want to hear the rest?' They showed me some
other things. One was this picture of a guy sitting over a creek. He was holding
a fishing pole, and on the end of the fishing line was a boot. They said: 'What
is he feeling?' And you're supposed to give an answer like: 'He's disappointed,'
or sad or whatever. I said he was thrilled. To me, he lost his boot the week
before when he was fishing there, and now he'd found it. It all made sense! But
they didn't ask me why, they just thought: 'That's the wrong answer.' They
wanted to institutionalize me."—Actress and environmental activist Daryl
Hannah, on her experience with psychiatry in childhood, quoted in Gaby Wood, “
Interview:
‘I'm a Little Bit of a Nerd,'” The Guardian, June 6, 2009
(Photo of Daryl Hannah taken Apr. 10, 2013, by the World
Travel and Tourism Council.)
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