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Travels Of The Mind - Montego Bay

A series looking at the different attitudes to mental illness around the globe

A series looking at the different attitudes to mental illness around the globe. The programme looks at some of the prejudices against Jamaican mental health patients which climaxed in a night of terror for some Montego Bay residents. Some homeless patients with mental health problems were rounded up and removed from Montego Bay. Has treatment for the mentally ill improved since the scandal.

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23 minutes

91热爆 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project