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Mental Major 
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TITLE |
Family Life (1971) (TV Film) |
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ALT__TITLE |
Wednesday's
Child |
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DISABILITY |
Mental
schizophrenia |
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NOTES |
About a
nineteen year old girl with schizophrenia. When she |
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becomes
pregnant her parents force her to have an abortion |
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and later to
have psychiatric care. The film is made starkly |
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realistic
and concentrates on the methods of R.D. Laing (a |
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cult
psychiatrist of the 70s but check this on WWW). The |
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result of
this is that she is treated as though her problem is |
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simply
conflict with her parents. But then these methods are |
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rejected and
she is given electric shock treatment and |
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From play In
Two Minds by David Mercer. |
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N.B. On the
news today, Dec 20, 1999 I heard of a young |
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man with
Down's Syndrome whose parents were trying to |
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force him to
have a vasectomy. The court declined to support |
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Notes
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