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The origin of the modern use of the term anti-psychiatry was in a book by David Cooper (1967) entitled Psychiatry and anti-psychiatry. In the preface, he talked about anti-psychiatry being at a germinal stage. He suggested that what he called the ‘in-stitutionalising processes’ and ‘day-to-day indoctrination’ of work in the psychiatric field were starting to produce answers antithetical to conventional solutions.
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Double, D.B. (2006). Historical Perspectives on Anti-psychiatry. In: Double, D.B. (eds) Critical Psychiatry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599192_2
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