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Anti-Coercion Is Not Anti-Psychiatry
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The term "anti-psychiatry" was created in 1967 by the South African psychiatrist David Cooper (1931-1986) and the Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Lamg (1927-1989). Instead of defining the term, they identified it as follows: "We have had many pipe-dreams about the ideal psychiatric, or rather anti-psychiatric, community." The "we" were Cooper, Laing, Joseph Berke, and Leon Redler, the latter two American psychiatrists and pupils of Laing.
"A key understanding of 'anti-psychiatry,'" explains British existential therapist Digby Tantam, "is that mental illness is a myth (Szasz 1972)." Alas, this is not true. While many anti-psychiatrists pay lip service to rejecting the "medical …
