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The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971 - Routledge Studies in Cultural History Wall, Oisin (University College Dublin, Ireland) 1st edition
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The British Anti-Psychiatrists: From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971 - Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Wall, Oisin (University College Dublin, Ireland)
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.
212 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 8, 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138048560 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 226 |
| Dimensions | 214 × 165 × 6 mm · 462 g |
| Language | English |
