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 and its radical politics. In the process, the book 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...