ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a catalyst for psychiatry to take steps to further consolidate its authority in defining rape as symptomatic of mental illness. It includes the anti-psychiatry movement, others from within the profession, feminists, lesbian, gay, and bisexual communities, all challenging the concept of mental illness and the treatments employed by psychiatry. However, there were other threats to the profession at this time, specifically related to its construction of sexual violence. The chapter examines new developments within forensic psychology and feminism. Psychiatry's response would be influenced by change in other disciplines as well, such as the role of sexology and the pharmaceutical industry in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. This context of criticism and instability, in addition to new avenues for development, coincided with the introduction of a new diagnostic category termed 'paraphilic coercive disorder'; but this new diagnosis would prove to be significantly more difficult to create.
