The rivalry between Laing and Sargant would come to a head in 1967 when the BBC broadcast a controversial TV docudrama, In Two Minds. Directed by Ken Loach, it featured a young woman, Kate Winter (played by Anna Cropper), who suffered from schizophrenia. The play, based on Sanity, Madness and the Family, co-authored by Laing and fellow psychiatrist Aaron Esterson, was a direct challenge to Sargant and, in particular, The Hurt Mind, a BBC documentary series on mental health in which Sargant had waxed lyrical about lobotomy, ECT, abreaction and insulin coma therapy.
