Break On Through
Richert, Lucas (University of Strathclyde)
Antipsychiatry, ” Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s.The upheavals of the 1960s gave way to a decade of disruptions in the 1970s, and among the rattled fixtures of American society was mainstream psychiatry. A "Radical Caucus” formed within the psychiatric profession and the "antipsychiatry” movement arose. Critics charged that the mental health estab...