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.

Contents 1 Nature of the psychiatric survivors movement 2 Participants 2.1 Supporters 3 History of the psychiatric survivors movement 3.1 People 4 Issues 4.1 Pharmaceutical industry 5 Psychiatry 5.1 Psychiatric services 5.2 Public agencies 5.3 Legal framework for psychiatric treatment 6 Organisations 6.1 Advocacy groups, by region 6.2 Self-help groups 7 Related movements 7.1 Anti-psychiatry movement 7.1.1 People of the anti-psychiatry movement 7.1.2 Anti-psychiatry publications 7.1.3 Anti-psychiatry organisations 8 See also 9 External links

Nature of the psychiatric survivors movement

• The psychiatric survivors movement can be described as all of the following:
  • Political movement
    • A human rights movement
      • Part of the disability rights movement
• Psychiatric survivors as a group can be described as:
  • Advocacy group
  • Community
  • Special interest group

Participants

• Mental health consumer
  • Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
    • 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
• 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
  • Elizabeth Packard

Issues

• Coercion
  • Forced feeding
  • 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

Psychiatric services

• Services for mental disorders
• Care programme approach (UK)

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

See Outline of psychiatry#Legal framework for psychiatric treatment

Organisations

Advocacy groups, by region

• United Kingdom
  • England
    • 19th century
    • Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society
• 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

See also

• Insanity
• Mental patient
• Democratic Psychiatry
• Independent living
• Kingsley Hall
• Medicalization
• Peer support specialist
• Philadelphia Association
• Recovery model
• Self-advocacy
• Therapeutic community
• Icarus Project
• Involuntary treatment
• Judi Chamberlin
• Kate Millett
• Leonard Roy Frank
• Linda Andre
• Lyn Duff
• Mad Pride
• MindFreedom International
• National Empowerment Center
• Peer support
• Peer support specialist
• Psychiatric rehabilitation
• Social firms
• Soteria
• Ted Chabasinski
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
• Against Therapy
• Antipsychology
• Biopsychiatry controversy
• Icarus Project
• Interpretation of Schizophrenia
• Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
• Mind Freedom
• Positive Disintegration
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Radical Psychology Network
• Rosenhan experiment
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
• Loren Mosher
• Feeble-minded

Health and mortality

• Physical health in schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia and smoking

External links

• This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
• 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

• MindFreedom International
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse

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