Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement

Overview of and topical guide to 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

• Richard Bentall
• Patch Adams
• Robert Whittaker
• The Radical Therapist

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
  • Linda Andre
  • Ted Chabasinski
  • Judi Chamberlin
  • Lyn Duff
  • Leonard Roy Frank
  • Kate Millett

Issues

• Coercion
  • Involuntary treatment
  • Involuntary commitment
  • Outpatient commitment
• Mentalism (discrimination)

Pharmaceutical industry

• Pharmaceutical industry
• Allen Jones (whistleblower)
• Anatomy of an Epidemic

Harmful practices

• Eugenics
• Psychosurgery
• Electroconvulsive therapy
• Psychoactive drug

Psychiatry

Psychiatry (outline)

• Mental disorder
  • History of mental disorder
• Mental Health
• Therapeutic relationship

Psychiatric services

• Services for mental disorders
• Care programme approach (UK)

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

International/Cross-border groups

• Pan-African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities
• European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
• MindFreedom International
• TCI-Aisa
• GROW
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

United Kingdom

• Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society (19C)
• Survivors Speak Out (20C)
• United Kingdom Advocacy Network (20C)
• MindLink
• National Service User Network (21C)
• Mental Health Resistance Network (21C)

Norway

• We Shall Overcome
• Aurora
• Mental Helse
• White Eagle
• LPP

Canada

• Mental Patients' Association

Germany

• Socialist Patients' Collective
• Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener BPE-eV
• International Association Against Psychiatric Assault

Netherlands

• Clientenbond
• Geesdrift

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

Main article: Anti-psychiatry

People

• Franco Basaglia
• David Cooper (psychiatrist)
• Michel Foucault
• R.D. Laing
• Loren Mosher
• Thomas Szasz anti-coercive psychiatry

Publications

• Against Therapy
• Anti-Oedipus
• Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
• Madness and Civilization

Organisations

• American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization

See also

• Against Therapy
• Antipsychology
• Biopsychiatry controversy
• Democratic Psychiatry
• Feeble-minded
• Icarus Project
• Independent living
• Insanity
• Interpretation of Schizophrenia
• Involuntary treatment
• Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
• Mad Pride
• Mad Studies
• Medicalization
• Mental patient
• MindFreedom International
• National Empowerment Center
• Peer support
• Peer support specialist
• Philadelphia Association
• Positive Disintegration
• Psychiatric rehabilitation
• Psychoanalytic theory
• Radical Psychology Network
• Recovery model
• Rosenhan experiment
• Self-advocacy
• Social firms
• Soteria
• Therapeutic community
• World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

People

• Judi Chamberlin
• Kate Millett
• Kingsley Hall
• Leonard Roy Frank
• Linda Andre
• Loren Mosher
• Lyn Duff
• Ted Chabasinski

Health and mortality

• Physical health in schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia and smoking

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

• MindFreedom International
• National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse