[lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault

[Russell Grinker]

This was the anti-psychiatry movement. One unforeseen consequence of it was
ammunition for cuts in state mental health provision which in Britain anyway
had the consequence that discharged mental patients roamed the streets, many
becoming homeless. Anyone on the list ever read Mary Barnes's: Two Accounts
of a Journey Through Madness, which was a seminal text of the time? In it
she described, among other things, painting religious pictures in shit on
her cell walls.  

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On Behalf Of Carl Remick


>From: bitch at pulpculture.org
>
>BTW, didn't the sociologist of deviance or maybe he was a psychologist --
>Laing maybe? -- have a lot to do with th enotion that most of what was
>called mental illness in the 60s was socially constructed -- a way to
>marginalized and warehouse people?

Are you talking about R. D. Laing