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Re: Music of the mad.
Aug 19, 2011, 11:08
I haven't read that - thanks for the tip! Kesey was fascinated by the treatment of mental illness, wasn't he? He seemed to use it as a metaphor for wider social issues. The hospitals where he worked in the fifties would have had quite a brutal approach to psychiatry, but it's probably unfair to tarnish the whole system as repressive. I remember thinking that many people admitted to these wards were already a hostage of their illness; that their freedom was already restricted by not being in control.
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