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The Cuckoo's Nest
From the late 18th century, the treatment of mentally ill people passed from church to doctors. With Martin Sixsmith. From April 2014.
From the late Eighteenth Century, the treatment - or containment - of mentally ill people was taken out of the hands of the church and into the hands of doctors.
Martin talks to psychiatrist Professor Tom Burns about changing models of treatment and to Joanna Moncrieff, author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure.
Producer: Alan Hall
A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4.
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