ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the transmission and retransmission of the message of liberation by the anti-psychiatrists and others in the counter-culture. It explores the anti-psychiatrists' idea of existential reality, which they developed in terms of individual psychology, but which played a key role in the anti-psychiatric co-option of liberation. The chapter discusses two of the key sources of meaning for the idea of liberation—third world liberation struggles and the liberation of the camps during the Second World War. Using this idea as a springboard, the chapter also examines the different ways that members of the counter-culture transmitted the idea of liberation and the similarities between them. The cultural network that enmeshed the anti-psychiatrists was constantly transmitting, retransmitting, and receiving messages about liberation and the Second World War. For the anti-psychiatrists the comparison between contemporary society and the Second World War was more than an analogy.
