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Mind games

By Nell Boyce

17 June 2000

SNOOPY is suddenly gripped by a wave of anxiety. But it’s OK, he realises,
there’s a simple way to feel better—lie with your head in your water dish.
“This is hushed up, of course, because it would completely ruin the drug
companies,” says Snoopy.

When one of the speakers at the Mind Aid conference showed the Snoopy strip,
the audience laughed. I cringed. I’d gone to New York City not knowing what to
expect, but intrigued by the claim that neuroscientists and critics of
psychiatry would be debating the biomedical model of mental illness.

Given that in the US…

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