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Consider the case of James Tilly Matthews, a tea-broker imprisoned in France during the Revolution while attempting brokerage of a more dangerous kind. His attempts to secure peace between Britain and the new Republic led ultimately to his arrest and torture. Matthews survived and in 1797 returned to England. Soon after, he wound up in the House of Commons gallery from where he cried ‘Treason’ at the then Home Secretary, Lord Liverpool, who Matthews blamed for his own political failings in France.
Here, for example, is David Cooper, the most avowed Marxist of the 1960s anti-psychiatrists (though he was himself a trained psychiatrist). His argument concerns the language of madness; in particular using the word ‘madness’ to challenge what he sees is the repressive apparatus of psychiatric nomenclature: The madness about which I’m writing is the madness that is more or less present in each one of us and not only the madness that gets the psychiatric baptism by diagnosis of ‘schizophrenia’ or some other label invented by the specialized psycho-police agents of final phase capitalist society.
2008) also point out that the fall in homicide statistics has occurred despite there having been no changes to the official definitions of the defences to murder since the 1950s. Large et al. (2008) also note that one would expect improved diagnosis of mental illness in modern times to have inflated the rates of murder attributed to mental illness and not have reduced them. Comparable findings are reported in countries such as New Zealand and Denmark (Prins, 2005). Maitland’s argument is that the tabloid media, like much popular culture, are not simply stigmatising the ‘insane’ but are symbolically shoring up the boundary between ‘us’ and ‘them’, which until recently was concretely manifest in the bricks and mortar of the asylum.
