Dr Joseph Berke, psychiatrist was a pioneer in his thinking
Dr Joseph Berke, psychiatrist was a pioneer in his thinking Drawn to a hippie outlook with strong views against the Vietnam War, he had been exempted from military service as a conscientious objector A PIONEERING psychiatrist, Dr Joseph Berke, whose study of the descent of a nurse into a form of madness became the plot of a well known play, has died at 81. Dr Berke wrote several books on psychiatry during the 1970s and 1980s and linked up with the controversial psychiatrist RD Laing, organising an international conference at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm. In the mid-60s he looked after a nur...
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