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The British Anti-Psychiatrists - From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,917
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The British Anti-Psychiatrists - From Institutional Psychiatry to the Counter-Culture, 1960-1971 (Hardcover): Oisin Wall

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

Oisin Wall

Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

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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 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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Release date: September 2017
First published: 2018
Authors: Oisin Wall
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-04856-0
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN: 1-138-04856-9
Barcode: 9781138048560

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