Psychiatry's contemporary efforts to increase its liberatory potential are heir to a range of
historically similar efforts. Carl Cohen and Sami Tamimi point out in their introduction to this
book that the founding images of psychiatry start with Philip Pinel's liberatory gesture of
unchaining the eighteenth-century Parisian insane. We can add to this liberatory gesture
William Tuke's efforts to create a moral treatment, Sigmund Freud's efforts to discover and
interpret unconscious conflicts, Jacques Lacan's efforts to keep Freud's work true to its …