Today, Laing’s experiment is considered an offshoot of the “anti-psychiatry” movement (though Laing himself never liked the term). Laing, and other psychiatrists like Thomas Szasz, David Cooper, and ...

Much has been written about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s radical health plans to eliminate fluoride from the drinking water and ...

Earlier in 2022, in the Jacobin piece “What the Anti-Psychiatry Movement Got Wrong About Mental Illness, Madeleine Ritts begins by telling us, “The anti-psychiatry movement advanced a radical ...

And there’s no anti-oncology movement that’s trying to ban cancer treatment. But there’s a very violent anti-psychiatry movement that claims there’s no such thing as mental illness and ...

Editor’s note: Jack Turban is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University ... These Republicans have simply repackaged old anti-gay rhetoric and scaremongering ...

As a countervailing anti-psychiatry movement eventually began to take hold, psychiatrists stoked homophobic anxieties with one hand while offering a solution — reparative therapy, also known as ...

Kennedy is pitching the idea that users of illicit drugs be sent to "wellness farms," and that users of antidepressants and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications should join ...

Demonstrators Protesting Treatment of Gay People in the Military (Bettmann / via Getty Images) As a countervailing anti-psychiatry movement eventually began to take hold, psychiatrists stoked ...