anti-psychiatry

Anti-psychiatry can best be understood against the counter-cultural context in which it arose.

Anti-psychiatry refers to a diverse collection of thoughts and thinkers that challenge the medical concept of schizophrenia.

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

Psychiatry and Anti-Psychiatry (Ed.)

Various 19th-century critiques of the newly emerging field of psychiatry overlap thematically with 20th-century anti-psychiatry, for example in their questioning of the medicalisation of "madness".

Peter Breggin who is a noted Anti-Psychiatry critic, was hired as a medical consultant by the firm and was also involved as a consultant in the other lawsuits.

The Church of Scientology advocacy organization, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, and Anti-Psychiatry critics believed Ritalin to be highly dangerous and completely unnecessary.

Mahon, Alyce, Jean-Jacques Lebel: Anti-Sculpture and Anti-Psychiatry, in: Sculpture and Psychoanalysis, B. Taylor (ed.)

Introducing Psychiatry (2004), illustrated by Piero, includes a brief history of psychiatry, what happens when someone visits a psychiatrist, a summary of the eight main categories of mental disorders, criticisms such as the Anti-Psychiatry movement, and the possible future of psychiatry.

In a 1976 publication "Anti-psychiatry: The paradigm of a plundered mind", which has been described as an overtly political condemnation of a wide sweep of people, Szasz claimed Laing, Cooper and all of anti-psychiatry consisted of "self-declared socialists, communists, or at least anti-capitalists and collectivists".