It's All The Fault Of The Rand Corporation!

Well the first episode is well under way, and the BBC is mixing fact and supposition based on its own self-interested polemic.

Ayn Rand isn't mentioned, but Game Theory is used as the underlying scapegoat for the indisputably 'noble' politicians' misguided policies.

A particularly shallow and fake attack on a psychiatric genius called R.D.Laing was mounted early on in the BBC phantasm, claiming that when he talked to 12 women 'schizophrenics' in the fifties, within a few months they were all well enough to go home; that they were all back within a year was supposed to be evidence of his 'complete failure to cure them'.
Then, when they further revealed that Laing found that it was their families that drove them back through power games played at home, the BBC started to call him 'paranoid' and made vaguely grandiose condemnations based on 'the Cold War'.

Nevertheless, as a history of the proofs of Laing's theorems, it is compulsive viewing, if you can get past the soft-soaping telling us that politicians really do have our interests at heart and winning the Cold War was a bad thing caused by our 'paranoid' persecution of the Soviet Union.

By the way, surveys showing that 50% of the US is mentally ill reflects 'mathematics'.
It has nothing to do with the destruction of psychiatry's power base by Laing, and is not a reflection on their self-interested behaviour.

Right?

You got that?
Replace persecution with formalised(not objective, as the BBC seems to imagine)intimidation, and blame, blame, blame Thatcher.