This book introduces the core concepts of Dianetics, which later evolved into the broader framework of Scientology. The ...

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.

As journalist Susannah Cahalan writes in her fascinating new book, The Great Pretender ... deinstitutionalization, anti-psychiatry, and the push for mental health patient rights." ...

That is the question that frames Mab Segrest’s book on the legacy of slavery for US psychiatry in general ... a feminist and anti-racist scholar, recounts more than a century of custodial ...

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 ...

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 ...

Burstow is an associate professor at the University of Toronto, where she recently launched the world’s first ‘anti-psychiatry’ scholarship, external. In her work as a psychotherapist ...