Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the psychiatric survivors movement:
Psychiatric survivors movement – diverse association of individuals who are either currently clients of mental health services, or who consider themselves survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who identify themselves as ex-patients of mental health services. The movement typically campaigns for more choice and improved services, for empowerment and user-led alternatives, and against the prejudices they face in society.
What is the psychiatric survivors movement?
- The psychiatric survivors movement can be described as all of the following:
- a political movement
- a human rights movement
- part of the disability rights movement
- Psychiatric survivors as a group is:
- an advocacy group
- a community
- a special interest group
Participants
- Victim of psychiatry
- Mental health consumer
- Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
- Former mental patient
- Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
- Mental health consumer
History of the psychiatric survivors movement
People
- 18th century
- Samuel Bruckshaw
- 19th century
- Early 20th century
- Late 20th century to the present
Issues
- Coercion
- Mentalism (discrimination)
Pharmaceutical industry
Harmful practices
Psychiatry
- Mental disorder
- History of mental disorder
- Mental Health
- Therapeutic relationship
Psychiatric services
- Services for mental disorders
- Care programme approach (UK)
Public agencies
- United Kingdom
- England and Wales
- United States of America
Legal framework for psychiatric treatment
Organisations
Advocacy groups, by region
International/Cross-border groups
- Pan-African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities
- European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- MindFreedom International
- TCI-Aisa
- GROW
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
United Kingdom
- Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society (19C)
- Survivors Speak Out (20C)
- United Kingdom Advocacy Network (20C)
- MindLink
- National Service User Network (21C)
- Mental Health Resistance Network (21C)
Norway
- We Shall Overcome
- Aurora
- Mental Helse
- White Eagle
- LPP
Canada
- Mental Patients' Association
Germany
Netherlands
- Clientenbond
- Geesdrift
United States of America
- Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
- Hearing Voices Movement
- Hearing Voices Network
- Icarus Project
- Insane Liberation Front
- Mad Pride
- Mental Patients Liberation Front
- MindFreedom International
- National Empowerment Center
- Network Against Psychiatric Assault
- Mental Patients' Liberation Alliance
France
Switzerland
Sweden
Australia
New Zealand
Self-help groups
- Self-help groups
Related movements
Anti-psychiatry movement
People
- Franco Basaglia
- David Cooper (psychiatrist)
- Michel Foucault
- R.D. Laing
- Loren Mosher
- Thomas Szasz anti-coercive psychiatry
Publications
- Against Therapy
- Anti-Oedipus
- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
- Madness and Civilization
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See also
- Against Therapy
- Antipsychology
- Biopsychiatry controversy
- Democratic Psychiatry
- Feeble-minded
- Icarus Project
- Independent living
- Insanity
- Interpretation of Schizophrenia
- Involuntary treatment
- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
- Mad Pride
- Mad Studies
- Medicalization
- Mental patient
- MindFreedom International
- National Empowerment Center
- Peer support
- Peer support specialist
- Philadelphia Association
- Positive Disintegration
- Psychiatric rehabilitation
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Radical Psychology Network
- Recovery model
- Rosenhan experiment
- Self-advocacy
- Social firms
- Soteria
- Therapeutic community
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- People
- Judi Chamberlin
- Kate Millett
- Kingsley Hall
- Leonard Roy Frank
- Linda Andre
- Loren Mosher
- Lyn Duff
- Ted Chabasinski
- Health and mortality
- Physical health in schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia and smoking
External links
- CAN (Mental Health) Inc - Australia
- The Mental Health Rights Coalition - Hamilton, ON, Canada
- Recovering Consumers and a Broken Mental Health System in the United States: Ongoing Challenges for Consumers/ Survivors and the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Part I: Legitimization of the Consumer Movement and Obstacles to It., by McLean, A. (2003), International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. 8, 47-57
- Recovering Consumers and a Broken Mental Health System in the United States: Ongoing Challenges for Consumers/ Survivors and the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Part II: Impact of Managed Care and Continuing Challenges, by McLean, A. (2003), International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. 8, 58–70.
- History
- Guide on the History of the Consumer Movement from the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
- Organizations
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