EXCERPT FROM "WISDOM, MADNESS, AND FOLLY"--R.D. LAING
"The New Year is the biggest celebration in Scotland. It is marked by prolonged carousing on the part of the alcoholic fraternity, but many teetotaller celebrate the spirit of the new year contently sober. There is no 'religion' about it. There is a special spirit abroad---'AULD LANG SYNE', 'A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT'.
In Gartnavel, in the so-called 'back wards', I have seen catatonic patients who hardly make a move or utter a...
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