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David Cooper
Sourh African psychiatrist (1931-1986) · South Africa · On the map · Doctors · Died at 55
David Graham Cooper was a South African-born psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. R. D. Laing claimed that Cooper underwent Soviet training to prepare him as an anti-apartheid communist revolutionary.
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After completing his course, he never returned to South Africa out of fear that the Bureau of State Security would eliminate him. He moved to London, where he worked at several hospitals. From 1961 to 1965, he ran an experimental unit for young people with schizophrenia called Villa 21, which he saw as a revolutionary 'anti-hospital' and a prototype for the later Kingsley Hall Community.
