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

ISBN-13: 9780367885373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str.

Oisin Wall

Opis

This book explores the work of the British anti-psychiatric group through its social and theoretical networks. It offers new readings of the group’s activities and writings by examining them as unfolding conversations, rather than focusing on any one writer. Through this exploration the book argues that the group’s synthesis of disparate discour

Recenzje

"Wall has produced a readable account of a much-discussed subject and has also provided original research and observations in the process. " - Allan Beveridge (University of Edinburgh)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Oisín Wall is the Research Curator of the Medicine Galleries at the Science Museum, London.