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
- **** Lunatic
Supporters
- Richard Bentall
- Patch Adams
- Robert Whittaker
- The Radical Therapist
History of the psychiatric survivors movement
- History of mental disorders
People
- 18th century
- * Samuel Bruckshaw
- 19th century
- * Elizabeth Packard
- Early 20th century
- * Clifford Whittingham Beers
- '''Late 20th century to the present
- * Linda Andre
- * Ted Chabasinski
- * Judi Chamberlin
- * Lyn Duff
- * Leonard Roy Frank
- * Kate Millett
Issues
- Coercion
- *Involuntary treatment
- *Involuntary commitment
- *Outpatient commitment
- Mentalism
Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Allen Jones
- Anatomy of an Epidemic
Harmful practices
- Eugenics
- Psychosurgery
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Psychoactive drug
Psychiatry
- Mental disorder
- *History of mental disorder
- Mental Health
- Therapeutic relationship
Psychiatric services
- Services for mental disorders
- Care programme approach
Public agencies
- United Kingdom
- *England and Wales
- ** Commissioners in Lunacy
- United States of America
- *Federal Bodies
- ** National Council on Disability
- ** New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
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
- Survivors Speak Out
- United Kingdom Advocacy Network
- MindLink
- National Service User Network
- Mental Health Resistance Network
Norway
- We Shall Overcome
- Aurora
- Mental Helse
- White Eagle
- LPP
Canada
- Mental Patients' Association
Germany
- Socialist Patients' Collective
- :de:Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener|Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener BPE-eV
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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
- * Self-help groups for mental health
Related movements
Anti-psychiatry movement
People
- Franco Basaglia
- David Cooper
- Michel Foucault
- R.D. Laing
- Loren Mosher
- Thomas Szasz anti-coercive psychiatry
Publications
- Against Therapy
- Anti-Oedipus
- Madness and Civilization
Organisations
- American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization