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United Kingdom
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Year
1971
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Genre
Medical drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- In Two Minds Working
- Wednesday's Child Alternative
Introduction
Family Life is a remake of David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds, which had been filmed by Ken Loach four years previously. The broadcast of the latter provoked controversy, owing to its negative portrayal of the received treatment for schizophrenia. Family Life, like In Two Minds, promotes the theories of psychiatrist R.D. Laing, who did not believe that schizophrenia was a brain disease but a psychological syndrome that “cannot be understood without understanding despair”.
In Family Life, a troubled nineteen-year-old’s mental condition is exacerbated by her unfeeling relatives, and the cold and ineffective solutions of medical practitioners, who prescribe drug and electro-convulsive therapy.
For a very different take on schizophrenia, see Russell Crowe's Oscar-nominated portrayal of maths genius John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001).
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Janice Baildon
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Mrs Baildon
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Mr Baildon
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Barbara Baildon
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Mr Carswell
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Dr Donaldson
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Dudley Sutton (uncredited)
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patient in Dr Donaldson's clinic
Anthony Phipps (uncredited)
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A Kestrel film
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Based on his own TV play 'In Two Minds'
David Mercer (uncredited)
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