The British anti-psychiatrists : from institutional psychiatry to the counter-culture, 1960-1971 / by Oisín Wall.

• Introduction: "A vista of broken clocks" -- "Psychiatry's third revolution" : the therapeutic community, community care, and deinstitutionalisation -- The anti-hospital and the therapeutic community : two anti-psychiatric communities -- "With co-operation we could all actually win" : three anti-psychiatric events -- "Society is a concentration camp" : existential reality and liberation -- "A depersonalized, dehumanized world" : the politics of the family.

• "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"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Psykiatriker  (sao)

Psychiatry  -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Psychiatry  -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Psychiatry  -- Great Britain -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Psychiatrists  -- Great Britain -- Biography. (LCSH)

Counterculture  -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social change  -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Public opinion  -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Political Activism  (MeSH)

History, 20th Century  (MeSH)

Psychiatry  -- history (MeSH)

Deinstitutionalization  -- history (MeSH)

Social Change  -- history (MeSH)

Social Conditions  -- history (MeSH)

Psykiatri  -- sociala aspekter -- historia (sao)

Undergroundkultur  -- historia (sao)

Psychiatrists  (LCSH)

Storbritannien  (sao)

Great Britain  -- Social conditions -- 20th century. (LCSH)

United Kingdom  (MeSH)

1900-talet  (sao)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Klassifikation

362.2/10941 (DDC)

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