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Yealland is a doctor at the National Hospital in London who serves briefly as a foil to Rivers’s “feminine” nurturing method of psychiatry. Yealland is overly-masculine and domineering, believing that his knowledge and power are irrefutable and he thus has no need to actually listen to his patients. Yealland cures a patient named Callan with mutism by strapping him in a chair and torturing him with an electrode for hours until Callan’s mind finally gives in and allows him to speak, though at the cost of horribly traumatizing and wounding Callan in the process. Yealland thus represents what a monstrous psychopath Rivers could similarly be if he, like Yealland, cared about embodying society’s ideal of masculinity and power.
Lewis Yealland Quotes in Regeneration
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Chapter 21
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“You will leave this room when you are speaking normally. I know you do not want the treatment suspended now that you are making such progress. You are a noble fellow and these ideas which come into your mind and make you want to leave me do not represent your true self.”
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Chapter 22
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Just as Yealland silenced the unconscious protest of his patients by removing the paralysis, the deafness, the blindness, the muteness that stood between them and the war, so, in an infinitely more gentle way, [Rivers] silenced his patients, for the stammerings, the nightmares, the tremors, the memory lapses of officers were just as much unwitting protests as the grosser maladies of men.
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Lewis Yealland Quotes in Regeneration
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Chapter 21
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“You will leave this room when you are speaking normally. I know you do not want the treatment suspended now that you are making such progress. You are a noble fellow and these ideas which come into your mind and make you want to leave me do not represent your true self.”
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Chapter 22
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Just as Yealland silenced the unconscious protest of his patients by removing the paralysis, the deafness, the blindness, the muteness that stood between them and the war, so, in an infinitely more gentle way, [Rivers] silenced his patients, for the stammerings, the nightmares, the tremors, the memory lapses of officers were just as much unwitting protests as the grosser maladies of men.
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