Xenakis, Stephen - short clip - WhyPeopleGoOnHungerStrike
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| - | You know, over time, the numbers varied widely. | 0:00 |
| I think there was even a point in time, | 0:04 | |
| there were 130, of the 830 or 50, | 0:05 | |
| who had been, quote, unquote, "on hunger strike." | 0:10 | |
| I felt that, realistically, | 0:12 | |
| there are certain procedures we should go through | 0:18 | |
| if we've got a person on hunger strike, | 0:20 | |
| having to do of, you know, | 0:23 | |
| he needs to be examined? | 0:25 | |
| Is this a real hunger strike? | 0:27 | |
| Is it in the sense that it's a political action, | 0:29 | |
| or a political military action, | 0:31 | |
| as people classically think about what happened | 0:33 | |
| in Northern Ireland? | 0:36 | |
| Or is this person on hunger strike | 0:38 | |
| because they've got a medical problem, | 0:40 | |
| or they've got a psychiatric problem, you know, | 0:42 | |
| over the years I've watched patients go | 0:45 | |
| on quote-unquote "hunger strikes" | 0:48 | |
| who've been, frankly, psychotic. | 0:50 | |
| And in fact they weren't on hunger strikes, | 0:53 | |
| they just felt that everything | 0:56 | |
| that was given to them was poison. | 0:58 | |
| And you had to treat the psychosis | 1:00 | |
| in order to get them to eat. | 1:04 | |
| And so I felt that there were just | 1:07 | |
| some standard practice here that we needed to walk through, | 1:12 | |
| and ascertain- | 1:17 | |
| Interviewer | Motivation. | 1:19 |
| - | the motivation, and the intent and the state of mind. | 1:20 |
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