David Graham Cooper (1931 in Cape Town, South Africa – 29 July 1986 in Paris, France)[1][unreliable source?]

Laing claimed that Cooper underwent Soviet training to prepare him as an anti-apartheid communist revolutionary, but after completing his course he never returned to South Africa out of fear that the Bureau of State Security would eliminate him.

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.

Participants included R. D. Laing, Paul Goodman, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Marcuse and the Black Panthers' Stokely Carmichael.

[14] Continuing the same line of thought, by the end of the following decade, 'he elevated madness to the status of a liberatory force'[15] in his last publication.