Coming to the fore in the 1960s, an anti-psychiatry movement challenged the fundamental claims and practices of mainstream psychiatry.

Szasz was wrongly associated with the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Intended to be an exposure of psychiatric establishment, the book made him an idol within the anti-psychiatry movement in Germany.

Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, although he rejected the label.

Divergence within psychiatry which generated the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s and 1970s, is still present.

The names that came to be associated with the anti-psychiatry movement knew of Lacan and acknowledged his contribution even if they did not entirely agree.

The anti-psychiatry movement was also being driven by individuals with adverse experiences of psychiatric services.

During the 1970s, the anti-psychiatry movement was involved in promoting restraint from many practices seen as psychiatric abuses.

Some within the anti-psychiatry movement are critical of the use of diagnosis as it conforms with the biomedical model.

The influence of pharmaceutical companies is another major issue for the anti-psychiatry movement.