Anti-psychiatry

Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can often be more damaging than helpful to patients. The term anti-psychiatry was coined in 1912, and the movement emerged in the 1960s, highlighting controversies about psychiatry. Objections include the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis, the questionable effectiveness and harm associated with psychiatric medications, the failure of psychiatric medications to demonstrate any deterministic treatments, and legal concerns about equal human rights and civil freedom being nullified by t

psychological experiment

a movement encouraging pride in people with mental illnesses

Scientology-related organization

patients' collective founded in Heidelberg, Germany, in February 1970, dissolved in July 1971

alternative inpatient treatment of people in psychotic crises

medical treatment undertaken without the consent of the person being treated

public Law Act aimed to improve Mental health care

1967 film by Frederick Wiseman

U.S.-based human rights organization

viewpoint held / reinforced by the majority of family members

Psychiatric clinic in France

in India, Pakistan, and Iran, a type of religious intoxication

theory in psychopathology

movement of those affected by psychiatric abuse

dispute over which viewpoint should predominate and form a basis of psychiatric theory and practice; criticism of a claimed strict biological view of psychiatric thinking; includes disparate groups such as the antipsychiatry