Some of you may have known Terence or his work. A real loss.
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Terence McLaughlin died last night 3 September 2007. He was very recently
diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and caught a secondary infection over
the weekend. Terence was born in 1947, and was a militant revolutionary
socialist for many years in industry before undertaking a psychology
degree, which he completed at Manchester Polytechnic. His PhD ‘Psychology
and mental health politics: A critical history of the Hearing Voices
Movement’ at Manchester Metropolitan University was examined by Marius
Romme in 2000. During the period of his studies and then afterwards he
brought radical perspectives to campaigns, conferences and publications
against the power of experts to define what is normal and abnormal for
others. He was then, until his death, executive editor of Asylum magazine.
His innovative academic research work was always in the service of wider
political struggles, and he sought to keep histories of resistance to
ruling ideological paradigms and state practices alive. Those who knew him
learnt so much that it will take a long time to reflect upon and find a
way across the chasm his death opens up for revolutionary activity in the
field of mental health.
Ian Parker
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