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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_Voices_Movement
In Europe the anti-psychiatry movement had its biggest successes in Italy where the main proponent of the anti-psychiatry movement, the psychiatrist Franco Basaglia successfully enlisted support for the new movement, which he called Democratic Psychiatry, from trade unions and the flourishing student movement and was successful in achieving wide ranging changes to the law which abolished the old asylums and made compulsory hospitalisation illegal.
However one of the most harmful ideas propagated by the anti-psychiatry movement was that psychosis could actually be a positive and life-enhancing experience. 5
Laing in particular saw poor parenting as the cause of schizophrenia because he had had a very difficult relationship with his own parents. 4
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