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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:
- David G. Cooper, Ronald D. Laing, Aaron Esterson (in Great Britain)
- Thomas S. Szasz, Erving Goffman (in the USA)
- Félix Guattari, Michel Foucault (in France)
- Franco Basaglia (in Italy)
- Theodoros Megalooikonomou (in Greece)
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]
- ↑ David Cooper (1967). Psychiatry and Anti-psychiatry. ISBN 9780415865982