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South African psychiatrist Dr. David Cooper is a noted anti-psychiatry movement figure, along with R. D. Laing, Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault. His major essays include 'Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry', 'The Death of the Family', 'Grammar of Living', and 'The language of Madness'. He coordinated the 1967 London-based 'Dialectics of Liberation' congress which saw the participation of R.D. Laing and a number of political activists including Herbert Marcuse and Black Panthers' Stokeley Carmichael while Jean-Paul Sartre, scheduled to appear, cancelled at the last moment. The term 'anti-psychiatry' was first used by David Cooper in 1967.
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