Re-Coopering anti-psychiatry: David Cooper, revolutionary critic of psychiatry

Chapman, Adrian

doi:10.1332/204986016x1473688814636

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“…Me detendré en la figura de David Cooper ya que la propuesta de la antipsiquiatría intercultural la desarrollo a partir de algunas de sus especificidades 5 . Antes quiero señalar que, de todos los autores mencionados, Cooper ha sido el más excluido en las discusiones académicas y en las publicaciones que refieren a la psiquiatría crítica o a la antipsiquiatría (Chapman, 2016). Esta es una de las razones de la elección de su propuesta como eje central del presente artículo.…”

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Antipsiquiatría intercultural

Martínez¹

2022

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En este artículo se propone el concepto antipsiquiatría intercultural a partir del análisis de una práctica de cuidados comunitarios en la que exiliados peul, mauritanos, residiendo en situación «administrativa irregular» en Bruselas, proporcionan alojamiento y acompañamiento a personas belgas con padecimiento mental/relacional, en el marco de una asociación militante de la corriente antipsiquiátrica, mientras son asesorados en su petición de asilo. A la luz de este estudio de caso, se desarrolla y discute la propuesta de David Cooper relativa a la creación de comunidades de cuidados. En ellas, se abole la división entre saberes expertos y profanos, y se evidencia el vínculo entre las relaciones sociales lesivas y la génesis del padecimiento, politizando aquello denominado por las psicotecnologías como locura. Para este propósito, se parte del cuestionamiento del concepto de normalidad, planteado por Cooper, descentrando su locus de enunciación cultural, así como la matriz etnocéntrica de su propuesta antipsiquiátrica, desde la coproducción de narrativas y prácticas interculturales sobre la salud y la enfermedad. Se realizan algunas aportaciones a la propuesta de la antipsiquiatría a partir de los conceptos de autoatención y nomadismo terapéutico. Se finaliza con algunas sugerencias provisionales para una posible identificación y/o coproducción social de otras prácticas antipsiquiátricas de tipo intercultural.

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Antipsiquiatría intercultural

Martínez¹

2022

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“…This has contributed to a corresponding minimising of Cooper and Esterson's important and distinctive roles in the ideas and interventions that came to be known as anti-psychiatry. This article seeks to contribute to a recent drive to ‘re-Cooper’ (Chapman, 2016) but also ‘re-Esterson’ the history of anti-psychiatry by foregrounding their fundamental roles in the making of these two films. This includes the vital roles Cooper and Villa 21 played in the research, production, and staging of the films, and Esterson's centrality to the film-makers' understanding and staging of the family dynamic.…”

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“…1 It employs these sources in a diachronic analysis of the production, mediation, and reception of In Two Minds and Family Life that explores their circulation within shifting clinical, media, and political contexts as the 'rebel' (Hornsby, 1967) ideas within the films became increasingly mainstream. Can we even consider the ideas of Laing, 'the Mick Jagger of psychiatrists' ('NY Film Fest', 1972), as 'radical' by 1972? The first half of the article challenges previous research on the production of In Two Minds (Hill, 2011;Wilson, 2012) through its foregrounding of the vital, hands-on contributions of Cooper and Esterson, who are often elided in the emphasis on Laing's roles. In doing so, it contributes to a recent revisionist drive to rewrite their contributions into histories of 'anti-psychiatry' (Chapman, 2016;Wall, 2015). The second half of the article contributes to recent scholarship that questions the idea of a polarisation between anti-psychiatry and psychiatric 'orthodoxy' (Marks, 2017;Staub, 2011;Toms, 2020;Wall, 2017) by approaching this issue from a media perspective.…”

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“…The first half of the article challenges previous research on the production of In Two Minds (Hill, 2011; Wilson, 2012) through its foregrounding of the vital, hands-on contributions of Cooper and Esterson, who are often elided in the emphasis on Laing's roles. In doing so, it contributes to a recent revisionist drive to rewrite their contributions into histories of ‘anti-psychiatry’ (Chapman, 2016; Wall, 2015). The second half of the article contributes to recent scholarship that questions the idea of a polarisation between anti-psychiatry and psychiatric ‘orthodoxy’ (Marks, 2017; Staub, 2011; Toms, 2020; Wall, 2017) by approaching this issue from a media perspective.…”

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From In Two Minds to MIND: The circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s

Snelson¹

2021

History of the Human Sciences

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This article explores the circulation of ‘anti-psychiatry’ in British film and television during the long 1960s, focusing on the controversial BBC television play In Two Minds (1967) and its cinema remake Family Life (1971). These films were inspired by R. D. Laing's ideas on the aetiology of schizophrenia, and were understood as uniting the personal and political motivations of progressive film-makers (Ken Loach, Tony Garnett, David Mercer) and progressive psychiatrists (Laing, David Cooper, Aaron Esterson). Drawing upon practitioner interviews with producer Garnett and director Loach, and extensive archival research on the production and reception of these films , this article contests previous scholarship on the popular circulation of anti-psychiatry and the movement's perceived polarisation from mainstream British psychiatry. While the reception of In Two Minds and Family Life did intensify an adversarial relationship between ‘rebel’ anti-psychiatrists and hard-line behaviourists such as William Sargant, the wider psychiatric field largely welcomed the films' contributions to mental health awareness and used the publicity to counter the idea of a ‘battle’ within the profession. This included leading UK mental health organisation the National Association for Mental Health looking to Loach and Laing as models for engaging contemporary audiences as it rebranded to MIND in 1972 . This article contributes to historical understandings of the complex interactions between the fields of media and mental health, as well as recent scholarship challenging the idea of a clear split between anti-psychiatry and British medical orthodoxy.

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“…[4] While paying due homage to Marxism, Laing was never a card-carrying member [5] (unlike Cooper who was positively anarchistic) and later dropped it completely. [6] He described the bourgeois nuclear family as a toxic cauldron that cooked the schizophrenic personality. The schizophrenic, he maintained, was torn between the identity imposed by their family and the identity that they experienced.…”

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The Shrink who Shrunk Himself: The Rise and Fall of Ronnie Laing

Kaplan¹

2021

JOSHA

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In the sixties, RD "Ronnie" Laing was the most famous psychiatrist in the world. He became the leading figure of the British anti-psychiatry movement and a public celebrity. Laing saw existentialism as the explanation for the problem of psychosis, leading to alienation. He was the charismatic spokesman for an era that wanted to hear that psychiatry was the punitive arm of the state and that psychosis was a creative response to the bourgeois family. With a group of like-minded psychiatrists, they set up the experimental Kingsley Hall. The most famous patient was Mary Barnes, who later achieved fame with her painting. The enterprise was chaotic and ended after five years in disarray. The key issue in producing schizophrenia for these psychiatrists was the bourgeois nuclear family, who became something of a hate figure to therapists. Laing steadily unwound, becoming incomprehensible and dissolute in public. He espoused transcendental meditation and rebirthing, but this had little impact. He died prematurely at the age of 62. After decades, Laing is being seen in a new light. He has earned a number of biographies, is seen as a facilitator of the deinstitutionalisation movement and credited with changing the way psychiatric patients are regarded -the patient is to be listened to. josha.org

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Re-Coopering anti-psychiatry: David Cooper, revolutionary critic of psychiatry

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