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EXCERPT FROM "WISDOM, MADNESS, AND FOLLY"--R.D. LAING
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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 word, or seem to notice or care about anyone or anything around them year in and year out-----smile, laugh, shake hands, wish someone a A guid New Year.....and even a dance.....and then by the afternoon or evening or next morning revert to listless apathy. The change, however fleeting, in some of the most chronically withdrawn, 'backward' patients is amazing. If any drug had this effect, for a few hours, even minutes, it would be famous, and would deserve to be celebrated as much s the Scottish New Year.
The intoxicant here however is not a drug, not even alcoholic spirits, but the celebration of a spirit of fellowship".
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