What is anti-psychiatry?
Q: What is anti-psychiatry?
A: Anti-psychiatry is a social and political movement that questions certain practices of psychiatry.
Q: When did the first anti-psychiatry movement originate?
A: The first anti-psychiatry movement originated during the French Revolution of 1789 and was influenced by romantic ideals.
Q: When did the second anti-psychiatry movement start?
A: The second anti-psychiatry movement started in Germany around 1900.
Q: What was the focus of the third anti-psychiatry movement?
A: The focus of the third anti-psychiatry movement was to question the classification of Schizophrenia as a mental illness, to be treated by psychiatry and to highlight certain problems of psychiatric wards.
Q: Who influenced the third anti-psychiatry movement a great deal?
A: Michel Foucault influenced the third anti-psychiatry movement a great deal.
Q: What is Michel Foucault's book, Madness and Insanity: History of Madness in the Classical Age, about?
A: Michel Foucault's book, Madness and Insanity: History of Madness in the Classical Age, is about the question at what point madness starts.
Q: Who was the first person to use the term "anti-psychiatry"?
A: David Cooper, a South African psychiatrist, was the first person to use the term "anti-psychiatry" in 1967.
