The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the psychiatric survivors movement:
Psychiatric survivors movement â€" 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
- a human rights movement
- a political movement
- Psychiatric survivors as a group is:
- an advocacy group
- a community
- a special interest group
Participants
- Mental health consumer
- Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
- Former mental patient
- Lunatic
- Former mental patient
- Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
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 (discrimination)
Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Allen Jones (whistleblower)
- Anatomy of an Epidemic
Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
- Mental disorder
- History of mental disorder
- Mental Health
- Therapeutic relationship
- Mental disorder
Psychiatric services
- Services for mental disorders
- Care programme approach (UK)
Public agencies
- United Kingdom
- England and Wales
- Commissioners in Lunacy
- England and Wales
- United States of America
- Federal Bodies
- National Council on Disability
- New Freedom Commission on Mental Health
- Federal Bodies
Legal framework for psychiatric treatment
- See Outline of psychiatry#Legal framework for psychiatric treatment
Organisations
Advocacy groups, by region
- United Kingdom
- England
- 19th century
- Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society
- England
- Germany
- Socialist Patients' Collective
- International
- GROW
- MindFreedom International
- World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
- 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
Self-help groups
- Self-help groups
- Self-help groups for mental health
Related movements
Anti-psychiatry movement
- Anti-psychiatry
People of the anti-psychiatry movement
- Franco Basaglia
- David Cooper (psychiatrist)
- Michel Foucault
- R.D. Laing
- Loren Mosher
- Thomas Szasz
Anti-psychiatry publications
- Against Therapy
- Anti-Oedipus
- Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
- Madness and Civilization
Anti-psychiatry organisations
- American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization