The Birth of modern Psychiatry: Part 1 of 4

Watch part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGryxENuLLI This Clip shows the how R.D. Laing and the Anti Psychiatry movement attacked the Psychiatric and Medical establishment in the United States. Laing argued that Madness and Sanity were only convenient labels used by society to exercise control over people. It also shows how his ideas then influenced another psychologist David Rosenhan to conduct an experiment that would later seriously undermine psychiatric practice at the time. Ps. These clips are taken from a British documentary series called The Trap:What happened to our dreams of Freedom. The series are created by Adam Curtis a British documentary film maker. I can strongly recommend just about every documentary he has ever made. For Freudian psychology and its influence on consumer culture see The century of the self and for contemporary politics and the War on Terror see The power of nightmares. Both are brilliant, History of ideas at it's finest.