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UK. The Getty's thunderously troubled notes provide for an apt introduction to today's topic,

the pain, the trauma, the horrors of mental illness, and of its treatment. Now I quickly

realize that I could hardly introduce this topic without or without some

personal intellectual history. You see back in the mid-1970s when I was a sociology lecturer at the University of York

there was an enormous interest being shown by social scientists and concerned lay people

in the work of the Scottish psychiatrist Arde Lang, who had controversially argued

in several best-selling books that the well-known mental malady of schizophrenia was not

a mental illness at all, but a pejorative label

fixed on people by their relatives acting in collusion with

psychiatrist. In many cases this collusion was said to lead the victims to a long say in a mental

institution. So according to Lange's thesis psychiatrists were no more than agents of

social control and mental illness was no more or less

than a form of protest against a sick society. Well along with any of my

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