This article explores the circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s, focusing on the controversial BBC television play In Two Minds (1967) and its cinema remake Family Life (1971). These films were inspired by R. D. Laing's ideas on the aetiology of schizophrenia, and were understood as uniting the personal and political motivations of progressive film-makers (Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, David Mercer) and progressive psychiatrists (Laing, David Cooper, Aaron Esterson). Drawing upon practitioner interviews with producer Garnett and director Loach, and extensive archival research on the production and reception of these films, this article contests previous scholarship on the popular circulation of anti-psychiatry and the movement's perceived polarisation from mainstream British psychiatry. While the reception of In Two Minds and Family Life did intensify an adversarial relationship between ‘rebel’ anti-psychiatrists and hard-line behaviourists such as William Sargant, the wider psychiatric field largely welcomed the films' contributions to mental health awareness and used the publicity to counter the idea of a ‘battle’ within the profession. This included leading UK mental health organisation the National Association for Mental Health looking to Loach and Laing as models for engaging contemporary audiences as it rebranded to MIND in 1972. This article contributes to historical understandings of the complex interactions between the fields of media and mental health, as well as recent scholarship challenging the idea of a clear split between anti-psychiatry and British medical orthodoxy.

本文探讨了 1960 年代漫长的 1960 年代英国电影和电视中“反精神病学”的传播情况，重点关注备受争议的 BBC 电视剧《In Two Minds》（1967 年）及其电影翻拍《家庭生活》（1971 年）。这些电影的灵感来自 RD Laing 关于精神分裂症病因学的观点，并被理解为将进步电影制作人（Ken Loach、Tony Garnett、David Mercer）和进步精神病学家（Laing、David Cooper、Aaron Esterson）的个人和政治动机结合起来）。借鉴对制片人加内特和导演洛奇的从业者采访，以及对这些电影的制作和接收的广泛档案研究，这篇文章对先前关于反精神病学的流行传播以及该运动与英国主流精神病学的两极分化的学术研究进行了辩论。虽然《两种思想和家庭生活》的接受确实加强了“反叛”反精神病学家和威廉·萨甘特等强硬行为主义者之间的敌对关系，但更广泛的精神病学领域在很大程度上欢迎这些电影对心理健康意识的贡献，并利用了宣传反对行业内“战斗”的想法。这包括领先的英国心理健康组织全国心理健康协会希望 Loach 和 Laing 作为吸引当代观众的典范，因为它于 1972 年更名为 MIND 。 这篇文章有助于对媒体和心理健康领域之间复杂相互作用的历史理解，以及最近对反精神病学和英国医学正统观念之间明确分歧的观点提出质疑的学术研究。