Talk:David Cooper (psychiatrist)

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A single edit to this article added a death date of 1986. I can't find any evidence via Google that he has died. Removed. Cite, please? -- The Anome 13:45, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure I recall his obituaries some 20 years ago. There is an undated tribute article at and a 2001 article which gives 1986 as date of death at. Probably better to reinstate the 1986 death, not least now that there is also the Living People category to make its omission mor misleading? AllyD 13:48, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Psychiatry Movement
A case could be made that Dr. Cooper was the only member of the anti-psychiatry movement, insofar as it was a movement at all. Laing eschewed the term; Szasz & Foucault were critical of psychiatry years before Cooper coined the term.

A case could also be made that an anti-psychiatry bias began in the wake of WWII: soldiers were returning from overseas with a plethora of emotional disturbances, even while (in the USA, anyway) doctors had made a concerted effort at the intake (draft induction) level to "weed out" the incipiently disturbed.

In any case, it's a vague generalization to lump Szasz et al. into the anti-psychiatry movement: that's the job of pop media. BubbleDine (talk) 13:34, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

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