This book introduces the core concepts of Dianetics, which later evolved into the broader framework of Scientology. The anti-psychiatry movement was not merely an academic exercise; it had ...

The book’s themes reflect those that were recurring ... Maria Farland discusses Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and its role in the anti-psychiatry movement. In writing the 1963 novel, “Plath ...

What if she publishes a book at the very moment when her anti-expert, anti-science — in this case, anti-psychiatry — perspective aligns with U.S. government policy? Delano has published that book.

Diane Barth has referenced Marcia Angell's review in the NYRB of three "anti-psychiatry" books. Barth emphasizes the sheer size of the medicalization, pharmacologization, and medication of our ...

An anti-psychiatry movement was growing throughout the 1960s, promoted by books like Thomas Szasz’s “The Myth of Mental Illness” and Erving Goffman’s “Asylums”; what Rosenhan’s ...

At his peak he was revered as the "high priest of anti-psychiatry", famous for his bestselling books and celebrity friends such as Sean Connery, who Laing is said to have treated for stress by ...