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Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

Richert, Lucas

Hardcover

Series: Mit Press

Medical ReferenceSports GeneralMental Health

Publisher Price: $26.95

ISBN10: 0262042827
ISBN13: 9780262042826
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 8 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.01
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 establishment was complicit with the military-industrial complex, patients were released from mental institutions, and powerful antipsychotic drugs became available. Meanwhile, practitioners and patients experimented with new approaches to mental health, from primal screaming and the therapeutic use of psychedelics to a new reliance on quantification. In Break on Through, Lucas Richert investigates the radical challenges to psychiatry and to the conventional treatment of mental health that emerged in the 1970s and the lessons they offer for current debates.

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