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

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

Issues

Coercion
Mentalism (discrimination)

Pharmaceutical industry

Harmful practices

Psychiatry

Psychiatry (outline)

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

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

Outlines
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