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When Medicine Got It Wrong
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Credit: A film by Katie Cadigan and Laura Murray
Katherine Cadigan
Marina del Rey, California
In the 1970s, a small group of parents became the first in the nation to publicly refuse blame for causing their children’s battle with schizophrenia. This film will examine how these families launched one of the fastest-growing grassroots movements the nation had seen to date and helped usher in an era of dramatic advances in treatment and brain research.