 After Barrett died , his sister Rosemary insisted that Barrett neither suffered from mental illness nor received treatment for it at any time since they resumed regular contact in the 1980s . She allowed that he did spend some time in a private " home for lost souls " — <unk> in Essex — but claimed there was no formal therapy programme there . Some years later , Barrett apparently agreed to sessions with a psychiatrist at <unk> psychiatric hospital in Cambridge , but Breen claimed that neither medication nor therapy was considered appropriate . His sister denied he was a recluse or that he was vague about his past : 
