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Since its creation in 1999, the Network of Critical Psychiatry has had an increasingly significant impact—even if at times this has been poorly understood—on psychiatry in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. This article aims to present the origins of the critical contemporary psychiatry movement in Great Britain. Certainly, it can be conceived as a legacy from the sixties, but considering critical psychiatry as equivalent to antipsychiatry would be a grave historical as well as conceptual error. This is why I present a personal point of view on the principal points of agreement between critical psychiatry and antipsychiatry. I then describe the actions of the Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN) in the United Kingdom, taking into account three essential domains: the problem of coercion and the role of psychiatry in terms of social control; the role and use of scientific knowledge; and the problems of meaning and contexts. I conclude with a personal evaluation concerning the challenges that await critical psychiatry.