A history of critical psychiatry that also acts as a call for a new approach to mental health services.
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Introduction R. D. Laing: the psychiatrist of the counterculture Michel Foucault: the man in the high castle Erving Goffman: madness, and the asylum as a total institution Frantz Fanon: Black Minds Matter - race, psychiatry and revolutionary politics Thomas Szasz: a libertarian challenge to the 'therapeutic state' Franco Basaglia: psychiatry as radical politics David Rosenhan: an experiment revisited Plath, Frame and Casey: psychiatry and the literary imagination Conclusion Bibliography Index