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- adjective Opposing
psychiatry .
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anti- + psychiatric
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The Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963 indeed played a major role in emptying public mental hospitals (to the benefit of some mentally ill patients, to the detriment of many others), but the antiauthoritatarian sentiments of the 1960s (which were shared by a lot more than hippies) also played a role in the development of the antipsychiatric movement.
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