Katie Tobin is a culture writer and a PhD candidate in English at the University in Durham. She is also a former lecturer in English and Philosophy.
, was admitted to a psychiatric centre. The given reasons for her institutionalisation were her sexually provocative behaviour and refusal to shave her legs, amongst many others. As a witness to Barbara’s physical and psychological abuse and her eventual suicide, Goldin ran away from home and found solace amongst a group of fellow rebels before succumbing to an opioid addiction.
Originally conceived in 2004 for the chapel of the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris – a former asylum where Jean-Martin Charcot conducted experiments on ‘hysteric women’ – the film implicitly lays bare the tensions of religious idealism and the Church’s difficult past. Even Goldin’s rehab centre, the focus of the film’s final section, eerily resembles a church. Her deadening descent into addiction and self-harm don’t make for an easy watch, but not much of the film does.
As the film evinces a link between spiritual and psychiatric abuse, the Welsh Chapel offers up an opulent setting for meaningful dialogue about religion’s historically oppressive treatment of women and their sexuality. It’s wise, then, to remember that Magdalene laundries, exorcisms, and conversion therapy are some of the other ways that the Church has inflicted profound psychological harm under the guise of moral and spiritual guidance.
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