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antipsychiatry [ˌæntɪsaɪˈkaɪətrɪ] n (Psychiatry) an approach to mental disorders that makes use of concepts derived from existentialism, psychoanalysis, and sociological theory How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 149) This sounds like some limp residue of the antipsychiatry movement of the 1960s that, enmeshed in Marxist ruminations about the "bourgeoisie," has somehow staggered into the 1990s. The mute violence of his work acts as an antipsychiatry in the field of art. The 1950s fantasy of social harmony and better living through psychiatry--"created by psychiatry itself as well as by the movies,' according to the Gabbards--inevitably failed and fed the fire of anti-authority, antipsychiatry movies. |
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