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Anti-psychiatry

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Originally a movement that merely opposed involuntary treatment and drugging of patients; Anti-psychiatry is a broad movement that opposes psychiatry or elements of Psychiatry.

History[edit | edit source]

The term "anti-psychiatry" was first used by David Graham Cooper in Psychiatry and Anti-psychiatry.[1]

Important theorists[edit | edit source]

Some known theorists who have been associated with the anti-psychiatrist movement are:

Besides Thomas Szasz, who claimed the political label of a "liberal humanist", it has been a common feature of anti-psychiatrist figures to adhere to Marxist or anarchist left.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. David Cooper (1967). Psychiatry and Anti-psychiatry. ISBN 9780415865982