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An Error of Judgement: a play about the sexual abuse of people with learning disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John H. M. Crichton
John H. M. Crichton*
Affiliation:
Edinburgh University Department of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Royal Edinburgh Hospital Edinburgh EH10 5HF
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In recent years, psychiatrists have become much more aware of the sexual abuse of adults with a learning disability. Having struggled with such a case, which raised challenging problems of law, ethics and management (Crichton, 1997), I turned to the literature to help inform me about the subject. There I found helpful statistics from recent surveys, but sometimes such material fails to convey the true nature of what is a distressing and painful subject. To my astonishment I discovered that at a local theatre there was to be a performance on this very theme: An Error of Judgement I had heard of the Strathcona Theatre Company, a touring company of eight learning disabled professional actors who, with the assistance of two directors, devise the original plays they perform, but I had no idea of what the evening was going to be like.

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Psychiatry and the media
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , June 1998 , pp. 384 - 385
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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