1. R. D. Laing, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (London: Penguin, 1965), pp. 42–3.
2. Laing and Esterson refer to this as the ‘family nexus’. See R. D. Laing and A. Esterson, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics (London: Penguin, 1970), p. 21.
3. See R. D. Laing, H. Phillipson and A. R. Lee, Interpersonal Perception: A Theory and a Method of Research (London: Tavistock, 1966), p. 55.
4. Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (London: Picador, 2011), p. 74.
5. For the details of state policy on the social inclusion of those with psychiatric illness see Department of Health, National Service Framework for Mental Health: Modern Standards and Service Models (London: Department of Health, 1999).