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In the 1990s, a tendency was noted among psychiatrists to characterize and to regard the anti-psychiatric movement as part of the past, and to view its ideological history as flirtation with the polemics of radical politics at the expense of scientific thought and enquiry.

It was also argued, however, that the movement contributed towards generating demand for grassroots involvement in guidelines and advocacy groups, and to the shift from large mental institutions to community services.

Additionally, community centers have tended in practice to distance themselves from the psychiatric / medical model and have continued to see themselves as representing a culture of resistance or opposition to psychiatry's authority.

Overall, while antipsychiatry as a movement may have become an anachronism by this period and was no longer led by eminent psychiatrists, it has been argued that it became incorporated into the mainstream practice of mental health disciplines.

On the other hand, mainstream psychiatry became more biomedical, increasing the gap between professionals.