1st Edition
The British Anti-Psychiatrists From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971
By Oisín Wall
Copyright 2018
228 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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The British anti-psychiatric group, which formed around R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and Aaron Esterson in the 1960s, burned bright, but briefly, and has left a long legacy. This book follows their practical, social, and theoretical trajectory away from the structured world of institutional psychiatry and into the social chaos of the counter-culture. It explores the rapidly changing landscape of... Read more
1. Introduction: "A Vista of Broken Clocks" 2. "Psychiatry’s Third Revolution": The Therapeutic Community, Community Care, And Deinstitutionalisation 3. The Anti-Hospital and the Therapeutic Community: Two Anti-Psychiatric Communities 4. "With Co-Operation We Could All Actually Win’: Three Anti-Psychiatric Events 5. "Society is a Concentration Camp": Existential Reality and Liberation 6. "A Depersonalized, Dehumanized World": The Politics of the Family 7. Conclusion
Biography
Oisín Wall is the Research Curator of the Medicine Galleries at the Science Museum, London.
"Wall has produced a readable account of a much-discussed subject and has also provided original research and observations in the process. " - Allan Beveridge (University of Edinburgh)
