Recovery From Schizophrenia: Psychiatry And Political Economy

326 NOTES1972; Vaughn, C.E. and Leff, J.P., “The influence of family and social factors on thecourse of psychiatric illness,” British Journal of Psychiatry, 129:125–37, 1976.11 Leff, J., “Preventing relapse in schizophrenia,” presented at the World PsychiatricAssociation Regional Meeting, New York City, October 30-November 3, 1981.12 Brown, G.W., Bone, M, Dalison, B. et al., Schizophrenia and Social Care, London:Oxford University Press, 1966.13 Wing, J.K. and Brown, G.W., Institutionalism and Schizophrenia, London: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1970.14 Huessy, H.R., “Discussion,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, 7:178–80, 1981.15 Brown, G.W. and Birley, J.L.T., “Crises and life changes and the onset ofschizophrenia,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 9:203–14, 1968.16 Engels, K, The Condition of the Working Class in England, London: Granada, 1969, p.117. First published in Leipzig in 1845.17 Marx, K., Capital, vol. I, New York: International Publishers, 1967; reproductionof the English edition of 1887, p. 632.18 Ibid., p. 643.19 Ibid., pp. 743–4.20 Ibid., p. 644.21 Braverman, H., Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the TwentiethCentury, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974, pp. 386–401.22 Anderson, C.H., The Political Economy of Class, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:Prentice-Hall, 1974, p. 149.23 Silk, L., “Stocks jump as jobs slump: So what’s next?,” New York Times, October10, 1982, p. E1; Pear, R., “Ranks of US poor reach 35.7 million, the most since’64,” New York Times, September 4, 1992, pp. A1 & A10; Bovee, T., “MoreAmerican workers holding low-paying jobs,” Associated Press report in BoulderDaily Camera, May 12, 1992, p. 5A.24 Mora, G., “Historical and theoretical trends in psychiatry,” in H.I.Kaplan, A.M.Freedman and B.J.Sadock (eds), Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry-III, Baltimore:Williams & Wilkins, 1980, pp. 4–98. The material in this paragraph is from pp. 73–91.25 Scull, A.T., Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in NineteenthCentury England, London: Allen Lane (New York: St Martin’s Press), 1979, pp. 196–9.26 Clark, D.H., Social Therapy in Psychiatry, Baltimore: Penguin, 1974, p. 23.27 Mora, “Historical and theoretical trends,” pp. 80, 90.28 Among those making an ideological switch in tune with the economy waspsychiatrist Werner Mendel, nationally recognized in the 1970s for his advocacy ofcommunity treatment of schizophrenia. Appearing for the City and County ofDenver, the defendants in the case, Dr Mendel modified his earlier views andtestified that community care and vocational rehabilitation for people withschizophrenia just do not work. In his deposition of May 7, 1983, for the ProbateCourt (case number 81-MH-270) and the District Court (civil action number81CV-6961) of the City and County of Denver, he claimed that it would be just aswell for people with schizophrenia if the whole mental health profession disappearedovernight. His pessimistic appraisal grew largely out of his own research andexperience with a program treating patients with psychosis in Los Angeles through aperiod of increasing unemployment and declining mental health funds.