As you step into the private consultation room of a profitable family court psychiatrist’s practice - the chairs uncomfortable, the bed/couch hard, dirty and heavily used – you are catapulted back to the mid 19th century. You feel almost trapped in a time wrap. The colorless interiors and the medieval lighting are almost prison-like, and the medical, masculine gaze of the psychiatrist a form of punishment. It is not just the archaic aesthetic of the environment that is saddening, but its suggestion of the archaic and dogmatic approach towards women and race, - a Darwinistic bent and fatalistic hereditarianism - that persists in the attitudes and diagnoses of today’s psychiatrists.

The patriarchal culture of the 19th century shaped and developed the field of human psychology. It established an enduring association between female psychology and insanity. Women find themselves punitively labeled, and further, abused or controlled, in line with the Freud’s belief that female "patients" who claimed to have been abused were merely fantasizing.

Times have not changed.

The images titled ‘The current state of the British psychiatric establishment’ 2011, investigate the sexual and racial control of women by the psychiatric establishment, originating in the colonial era. The images were taken in the offices of a overtly highly paid psychiatrist in an affluent part of London.