How Long to Read The British Anti-Psychiatrists

How Long Does it Take to Read The British Anti-Psychiatrists?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The British Anti-Psychiatrists by Oisín Wall

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The British anti-psychiatric group, which formed around R.D. Laing, David Cooper, and Aaron Esterson in the 1960s, burned bright, but briefly, and has left a long legacy. This book follows their practical, social, and theoretical trajectory away from the structured world of institutional psychiatry and into the social chaos of the counter-culture. It explores the rapidly changing landscape of British psychiatry in the mid-Twentieth Century and the apparently structureless organisation of the part of the counter-culture that clustered around the anti-psychiatrists, including the informal power structures that it produced. The book also problematizes this trajectory, examining how the anti-psychiatrists distanced themselves from institutional psychiatry while building links with some of the most important people in post-war psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The anti-psychiatrists bridged the gap between psychiatry and the counter-culture, and briefly became legitimate voices in both. Wall argues that their synthesis of disparate discourses was one of their strengths, but also contributed to the group’s collapse. The British Anti-Psychiatrists offers original historical expositions of the Villa 21 experiment and the Anti-University. Finally, it proposes a new reading of anti-psychiatric theory, displacing Laing from his central position and looking at their work as an unfolding conversation within a social network.

How long is The British Anti-Psychiatrists?

The British Anti-Psychiatrists by Oisín Wall is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The British Anti-Psychiatrists Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The British Anti-Psychiatrists aloud.

What Reading Level is The British Anti-Psychiatrists?

The British Anti-Psychiatrists is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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