anti-psychiatry

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critical movement critique of psychiatry intellectual movement social movement

Anti-psychiatry is a critical movement that challenges the medicalization of mental distress and questions the legitimacy, power structures, and coercive practices of mainstream psychiatry.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	critical movement ⓘ critique of psychiatry ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
advocatesFor	community-based alternatives to hospitalization ⓘ greater patient autonomy ⓘ non-coercive approaches to mental distress ⓘ recognition of social determinants of mental distress ⓘ
criticizes	coercive treatment practices ⓘ institutionalization in mental hospitals ⓘ pathologization of normal distress ⓘ pharmaceutical industry influence on psychiatry ⓘ psychiatric labeling ⓘ reduction of psychological suffering to brain disease ⓘ use of psychiatry as social control ⓘ
emergedInPeriod	1960s ⓘ
hasDebateOn	ethics of involuntary treatment ⓘ risk–benefit profile of psychiatric medications ⓘ validity of psychiatric diagnosis ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	David Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Erving Goffman NERFINISHED ⓘ Franco Basaglia NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Foucault NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Breggin NERFINISHED ⓘ R. D. Laing NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Scheff NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Szasz NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasKeyText	Asylums ⓘ Madness and Civilization NERFINISHED ⓘ The Divided Self NERFINISHED ⓘ The Myth of Mental Illness NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasMainFocus	critique of coercive psychiatric practices ⓘ critique of mainstream psychiatry ⓘ critique of medicalization of mental distress ⓘ critique of psychiatric power structures ⓘ
hasOppositionFrom	mainstream psychiatry ⓘ many medical organizations ⓘ
influencedBy	Foucauldian analysis of power ⓘ critical theory ⓘ existentialism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ social constructivism ⓘ
opposes	forced medication ⓘ involuntary commitment ⓘ use of restraints in psychiatric settings ⓘ
questions	biological model of mental illness ⓘ involuntary hospitalization ⓘ involuntary treatment ⓘ legitimacy of psychiatry as a medical discipline ⓘ long-term use of psychiatric drugs ⓘ use of electroconvulsive therapy ⓘ use of psychiatric diagnosis ⓘ
relatedTo	civil rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ critical psychiatry ⓘ disability rights movement ⓘ mad pride movement NERFINISHED ⓘ psychiatric survivors movement NERFINISHED ⓘ
viewsMentalDistressAs	socially constructed category ⓘ understandable response to life circumstances ⓘ

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