John,

FYI  - Am currently making a documentary for public television called "When Medicine Got it Wrong" - about the first parents in the US to organize, come out of the closet and rebel against the 40's-50's era psychiatric theories that horrible parenting caused schizophrenia.  We're co-producing the film with San Francisco's public television station KQED and the show will be launched on PBS in 2009.

For more info  -  www.whenmedicine.org.

Best,
Katie

Katie Cadigan, producer
imageReal Pictures, LLC
www.imagereal.com

About the documentary (from the www.whenmedicine.org Home Page):

When Medicine Got it Wrong is the groundbreaking story of loving parents who rocked the halls of psychiatry, changing how we understand schizophrenia.  In the 1970s, a small group of parents rebelled against then-popular psychiatric theories blaming schizophrenia on bad parenting.  Their activism helped revolutionize treatment forever and their stories reveal the origins of the tragic state of mental health care today.

Editors Note:

Katie, with her brother John,  previously produced a documentary about John's life dealing with schizophrenia.  (People Say I'm Crazy   -  www.peoplesayimcrazy.org)

You can read John's story at  -  www.hopetohealing.com/stories/hth/a-f/cadigan_j/0cj.htm.

For more information on documentaries produced by imageReal visit www.imagereal.com.