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

Edition 1 Published Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) Series Routledge Studies in Cultural History ; 54 Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 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; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Subject Psychiatry -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Biography Counterculture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Social change -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Social History. Counterculture Psychiatrists Psychiatry -- Philosophy Psychiatry -- Public opinion Psychiatry -- Social aspects Public opinion Social change Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056944 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315170121 1315170124

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