A Doctor Returns
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a subject on which he has also written a book (reviewed in our issue of Summer 1952). His description of his own condition, of his alternating moods and admittedly paranoid ideas are fascinating. Since discharge he has become an M.P. and is now devoting his interests to attacking the laws on mental illness, in particular those which interfere with the liberty of the subject and those which, in producing unnecessary restriction, militate against the patient's recovery of self-respect. In some ways this book is a graphic and dramatic illustration
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