Edited sentence: All sorts of alternative explanations abound, together with personal interpretations of experienced researchers to support opinions promoting an agenda of fiction by people who have never experienced schizophrenia.Commonly disregarded as an illness by the anti-psychiatry movement, those with schizophrenia, and therapists with an evidence-based rather than ideological perspective recognize that the debilitation, sometimes significant, and to some the frightening experience that imprisons their mind isn’t an alternative viewpoint or way of looking at life.David Cooper started the anti-psychiatry movement, which began in England in the 1960s.He attempted a kind of phenomenology of madness in an effort to express what it's like to have a mental illness rather than explore it in biomedical or clinical terms.He defends the person and every attack upon them made by society and others’ preconceptions as to their state and freedom of being.He disavows the connection with the anti-psychiatry movement.He is remembered for struggling against the oppression of contemporary psychiatry.He vehemently denied being part of the anti-psychiatry movement.His quotes and testimony to the nature of mental illness touch on every aspect of modern healthcare.In common with Thomas Szasz and R.Laing he championed the cause and welfare of the person.Laing was a controversial psychologist and philosopher of the 20th century.Many mentally ill people insisted he understood what they felt.Thomas Szasz presents controversy