Joanna
Russell Grinker wrote:
>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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>>From: bitch at pulpculture.org
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>>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?
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>Are you talking about R. D. Laing
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