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95.
Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry.
London: Tavistock Publications Limited, 1967. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth. 128pp.
SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Mike - for Love - and - Revolution - David” (the recipient, Mike Henshaw, was the accountant for the Philadelphia Association, of which Cooper, one of the organisers of the Dialectics of Liberation, was a founding member).
A pioneering work in which Cooper coins the term ‘anti-psychiatry’ in modern use for the first time, referring to it in the preface as being at a “germinal” stage.
Slight foxing to edges, o/w Near Fine in Very Good plus dw. (two short, closed edge tears).