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| Anti-psychiatry usually refers to a configuration of groups and theories that emerged in the 1960s hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry. Its igniting influences were Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz and, in Italy, Franco Basaglia. The term was first used by the psychiatrist David Cooper in 1967. Some now prefer the term critical psychiatry to... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Anti-psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry usually refers to a configuration of groups and theories that emerged in the 1960s hostile to most of the fundamental assumptions and practices of psychiatry. -
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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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History of anti-psychiatry
Increased legal and professional protections, and merging with human rights and disability rights movements, added to anti-psychiatry theory and action. -
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Franco Basaglia
["Anti-Psychiatry: Re-turning the field of Child and Youth Care"]. -
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Ethical issues in psychiatry
Anti-psychiatry and its criticisms -
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David Cooper (psychiatrist)
Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry (Ed.), Paladin (1967) -
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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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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies
Members of the Anti-Psychiatry movement such as Fred Baughman and Peter Breggin have extensively used the popular media to criticize ADHD and medications used for ADHD. -
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Category:Antipsychiatry
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Ronald David Laing
Boyers, R. and R. Orrill, Eds. (1971) Laing and Anti-Psychiatry.
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