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
gollark: Perhaps. Though one assumes they could probably do better.
gollark: Though presumably they could *technically* just OCR the details off the card?
gollark: Well, hardware reader systems, I think.
gollark: "We'll make it so that to pay for things at all, you need to give someone this information, and they can withdraw any amount of money if you have that, but it's totally fine because it's illegal to misuse that stuff!"
gollark: How were they not immediately fired?
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
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.