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The Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art

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7 April 2009

Every once in a while you stumble upon a random site floating in cyberspace that makes you feel the internet is one of the greatest inventions of all time (after movable type of course). The Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art archives images from Japanese psychiatric medication advertisements from 1956-2003. On display are some amazingly strange concepts and Illustration that boggle the brain. Unfortunately I can’t read Japanese but it seems as though this site was complied by Haruki Kazano. The 70’s must have been an amazing tome to live in Japan.

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