Critical Psychiatry: A Biography

Critical Psychiatry outlines the history of a group of thinkers that has come to be known as the anti-psychiatry movement. Though it has been called a movement, the individual thinkers’ and authors’ ideas were often in conflict but what they share is a critical perspective on psychiatry as a discipline and institutionalised modes of care.

The current crisis in mental health services means that it is time to examine once again the key themes of critical psychiatry. The excesses of the 1960s...