Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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Lock ‘em up.

Time for a debate on incarceration.

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Dec 10, 2024
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In traditional rural societies, people with severe mental disturbance were either given a job of looking after the animals, which often meant they lived with them, or they were pushed out on to the road, where they didn’t last long. In cities, they could do the same or, if too troublesome, they were locked in poorhouses and later in purpose-built asylum…

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