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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: PSYCHIATRY Volume 2 PEOPLE, NOT PSYCHIATRY PEOPLE, NOT PSYCHIATRY MICHAEL BARNETT i ~ ~~o~!~~n~~~up LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublishedin1973byGeorgeAllen&UnwinLtd. Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2019 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninforma business ©1973GeorgeAllen&UnwinLtd. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedor reproducedorutilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical, orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented,including photocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageor retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksor registeredtrademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationand explanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-1-138-60492-6(Set) ISBN:978-0-429-43807-3(Set)(ebk) ISBN:978-1-138-62445-0(Volume2)(hbk) ISBN:978-0-429-46077-7(Volume2)(ebk) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthis reprintbutpointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopies maybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersand wouldwelcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunableto trace. People Not Psychiatry Michael Barnett London George Allen & Unwin Ltd Ruskin House Museum Street First published in 1973 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention, All rights are reserved: Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner, Enquiries should be addressed to the publishers. © George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1973 ISBN O 04 616013 2 Hardback 0 04 616014 0 Paperback Printed in Great Britain in I I point Baskerville type by Clarke, Doble & Brendon Ltd Plymouth Preface All writing is about oneself. Our experiences are always there, between paper and pen. And yet we all, more or less, confuse our perspective with truth or reality, and try to get that per- spective confirmed as true or real by others. Like Freud, we can all explain everyone else away with our own view of the world. So we have schizophrenic psychiatrists calling schizophrenics prophets and seers; and psychiatrists obsessed with power, status and prestige magnifying their own mystique and the helplessness of patients. I read a book of essays on schizo- phrenia, and each essay is a small autobiography, a miniature confession. In view of the ineluctability of the subject, this book eschews the objective. Its perspectives are highly personal, and so is much of the material. I make no apology for this unless it proves to be boring. Much of this book is a living story, concerning living people. To avoid offence and distress many names have been changed. To those friends and others who appear here without disguise I would like to both affirm and apologize for a partiality of my perspective. I hope I have not been unjust. I want to thank my friends Joanna Clelland and David Eddy for the time, skill and energy they gave me in reading the manuscript and offering many useful criticisms. Also my thanks to Juliet Forman for her generous help with the proofs. Finally, here, I would like to thank Peter Leek of George Allen and U nwin, for his patience and faith. 5 To Sam and Fli and all in PNP-with apologies. Also to the late Fritz Perls, Dionysian, who gave me, through his books, the courage "tow rite what I felt, and to Jean-Paul Sartre, Apollonian, who, unbeknown to him, kept me within limits.
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