CAMINERO-SANTANGELO, Marta, The Madwoman Can't Speak

« Resisting the ever-widening reach of psychiatry a host of new "radical" theories of madness emerged in the 1960s. The antipsychiatry movement was characterized by the work of R.D Laing, who argued that madness was not the result of an inherited weakness (as the evolutionists had claimed) or of faulty or incomplete development (as Freud had suggested), but rather a "special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation". (Politics of Experience, 115) » (8)