Antipsychiatry movement

“ . . . there was nothing remotely like antipsychiatry before 1960. There couldn’t have been, for the simple reason that until World War II no ‘normal’ people ended up in psychiatric hospitals. There was no outreach of psychiatry into the wider world and no means of incarcerating people without chains in the midst of their communities. . . until World II the vast majority of those who were committed to asylums were clearly psychotic, severely epileptic with behavioral disturbances, or mentally handicapped” (Healy II, 150).