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The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971 (2017)

Wall, Oisín (Author)

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ISBN: 9781138048560

Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 226
Language: English

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Mental health and illness Discipline formation Medicine and culture Public health Physicians; doctors Controversies and disputes Scientific communities; interprofessional relations Psychiatry 20th century, late Great Britain

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 British psychiatry in the mid-Twentieth Century and the apparently structureless organisation of the part of the counter-culture that clustered around the anti-psychiatrists, including the informal power structures that it produced. The book also problematizes this trajectory, examining how the anti-psychiatrists distanced themselves from institutional psychiatry while building links with some of the most important people in post-war psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The anti-psychiatrists bridged the gap between psychiatry and the counter-culture, and briefly became legitimate voices in both. Wall argues that their synthesis of disparate discourses was one of their strengths, but also contributed to the group’s collapse. The British Anti-Psychiatrists offers original historical expositions of the Villa 21 experiment and the Anti-University. Finally, it proposes a new reading of anti-psychiatric theory, displacing Laing from his central position and looking at their work as an unfolding conversation within a social network.

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Review Alexander Dunst (2019) Review of "The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971". History of Psychiatry (pp. 262-263). unapi

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