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A new look at Asylum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. H. M. Crichton*
Affiliation:
Nightingale Scholar and Honorary Registrar in Psychiatry, University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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The 1970s horror film Asylum∗ is new out on the video store shelves. On the cover, above a severed head wrapped in brown paper, it warns, “you'll find more than cuckoos in this nest”. This anthology of popular perceptions of madness and mad-doctors

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Psychiatry and the media
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1993
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