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

Mental health consumer
- Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
  - Former mental patient
    - Lunatic

Supporters

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
- George Ebert
- Lauren Tenney
- Sharon Cretsinger
- Sue Clark Wittenberg
- Frank Blankenship

Issues

Coercion
Mentalism (discrimination)

Pharmaceutical industry

Psychiatry

Main article: Outline of psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatric services

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
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

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

Anti-psychiatry publications

Anti-psychiatry organisations

American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization

External links

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

Outlines

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People	Linda Andre Giorgio Antonucci Franco Basaglia Fred Baughman Ernest Becker Clifford Whittingham Beers Lauretta Bender Richard Bentall Peter Breggin Paula Caplan Ted Chabasinski Judi Chamberlin David Cooper Lyn Duff Michel Foucault Leonard Roy Frank Erving Goffman James Gottstein Jacques Lacan R. D. Laing Peter Lehmann Kate Millett Loren Mosher David Oaks Elizabeth Packard Sascha Scatter David Smail Thomas Szasz Stephen Ticktin Robert Whitaker

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