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Abnormality The Birth of Modern Psychiatry

These four video clips are taken from the excellent BBC series, ‘The Trap’.

 
They take a highly critical look at the biological/medical approach to abnormality.   
The first clip introduces R.D. Laing’s anti psychiatric approach.
This second clip summarises David Rosenhan’s study ‘On being sane in insane places’.   
This third clip criticises the use of psychiatric labels. [...]

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