WASTED LIVES
Released in 1972
This edition tels the stories of Lucy Baker and Phyllis Wood, who have needlessly spent the majority of their lives in mental hospitals. Also includes an interview with Dr Michael Quinn.
Oral testimony from former residents of St Catherines Hospital, Doncaster. Filmed in the 1970's, we meet various people who quite literally had their lives taken away from them. Their only crime being born into an intolerant society that was quite happy to lock them away for the best years of their lives.
How terrible, this poor woman who did noothing wrong has had her life taken away and forced to be institutionalised by laws which had been heavily influenced by religious beliefs..just because she was an unmarried mother.... yet nobody is held to account for this gross injustice....it took 44 years to repeal the law too..just shows how backward society really is..
Abreen11 3 months ago
i can JUST about remember that intro
lexichronicle2 7 months ago