 In his book "PsychoPolitics" (1982) he explained the severe reductions in psychiatric services that were already taking place as an effect of the "politically correct" conceptions of mental illness, such as those of the anti-psychiatry writers Michel Foucault, R.D.Laing and Thomas Szasz, being exploited by governments to justify spending cuts.Ben Watson (music writer) has compared the spirit of Sedgwick's work to the later campaigns of the Mad Pride movement.