"If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know. [ R D Laing ]

'Anti-psychiatry' and the cultural climate of 1968. Haya Oakley is a psychoanalyst in private practice who came to London in 1968. After a brief spell at the David Cooper post 'anti-university' group she joined the Philadelphia Association where she worked for many years with R.D.Laing and colleagues training psychotherapists and working in 'therapeutic housholds'. In 1997 she left the Philadelphia Association and set up, with others The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
She has been a member of The Guild of Psychotherapists for many years and is a founder member of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. For over seventeen years Haya was actively involved with the politics of psychotherapy organisations and the issues surrounding State regulation of the 'impossible profession'.
In her talk Haya will address the 'Anti-Psychiatric' vision of the 1960's, it's inter connectedness to the spirit of '68 and where it finds itself forty years on.