this antipsychiatric aesthetic explores the relationship between doctor and patient in poetry as Scottish antipsychiatrist R. D. Laing had in practice. Contemporary to Foucault and Laing's critique of the managerial doctor figure, these three texts re-enact this critique and extend its remit to embody the reader-writer/ author-text/ text-reader dialectic. Consequently, a specifically Iberian school of critical theory becomes apparent, that responds to the existential writings of Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). Embedded within these poetics are attempts to reframe the ontological anxieties that stem from a subjective experience of silence and control.