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   Anti-psychiatry

   See also: Biopsychiatry controversy Anti-psychiatry refers to a post-1960s configuration of groups and theoretical constructs hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry.
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   History of anti-psychiatry

   Anti-psychiatry increasingly challenged alleged psychiatric pessimism and institutionalized alienation regarding those categorized as mentally ill.
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   Category:Anti-psychiatry

   Because psychiatric medication is such a widely used treatment option for mental illness (and for conditions such as ordinary anxiety that may not rise to the level of "illness"), a great deal of anti-psychiatric focus is on pharmaceutical companies, which are suspected and sometimes directly accused of manipulating the medical community in order to increase the market for their products.
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   Psychiatry

   The pressure from the anti-psychiatry movements and the ideology of community treatment from the medical arena helped sustain deinstitutionalization.
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   Scientology and psychiatry

   Despite sharing notable anti-psychiatry views on some issues with the secular critics, Scientology doctrine does differ in some respects.
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   Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement

   There is some variation between the perspective on the consumer/survivor movement coming from psychiatry, anti-psychiatry or consumers/survivors themselves
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   Psychiatry: An Industry of Death

   It is owned and operated by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), an anti-psychiatry organization founded by the Church of Scientology.
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   Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies

   There is an antipsychiatry movement that often refers to their writings, but in contrast to scientolgists, they are not "anti-psychiatry," but critics of some of its practices.
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   Psychiatric hospital

   The anti-psychiatry movement coming to the fore in the 1960s oppose many of the practices, conditions, or existence of mental hospitals.
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    Thomas Szasz

    Szasz has been associated with the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s, although he has resisted being identified as an anti-psychiatrist.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Anti-psychiatry,
• History of anti-psychiatry,
• Category:Anti-psychiatry,
• Psychiatry,
• Scientology and psychiatry,
• Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement,
• Psychiatry: An Industry of Death,
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies,
• Psychiatric hospital,
• Thomas Szasz