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Anti-psychiatry refers to a post-1960s configuration of groups and theoretical constructs hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry. Its igniting influences were Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. The word "psychiatry" was invented by Johann Christian Reil in 1808. Two central contentions of the anti-psychiatry movement are that: Other common criticisms include:... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Anti-psychiatry Anti-psychiatry came to challenge a "biomedical" focus of psychiatry (defined to mean genetics, neurochemicals and pharmaceutic drugs).

History of anti-psychiatry Anti-psychiatry came to challenge a "biomedical" focus of psychiatry (defined to mean genetics, neurochemicals and pharmaceutic drugs).

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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.

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