Moncrieff worked for years with patients in a 22-bed ward at a Brentwood mental hospital.

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Ms Scott-Moncrieff said she was concerned about a potential blanket ban on all recent immigrants being denied legal aid.

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Vice in the play is represented by Algernon Moncrieff's craving for cucumber sandwiches.

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Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, president of the Law Society, told the BBC his arrest and Monday's appeal are "two completely separate issues".

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Dr Moncrieff's book "The Myth of the Chemical Cure", published by Palgrave Macmillan, will be available in paperback from September.

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In any case, the chief of Clan Skene, Danus George Moncrieff Skene, who is 67 and retired, has no room for "the glands man, " as he calls him.

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"There was this whole idea that Prozac made you better - well, I wasn't sure, " says Joanna Moncrieff, now a senior clinical lecturer in neuroscience at University College London and author of forthcoming book The Bitterest Pills.

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