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 David Oaks
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 Psychiatric drug epidemic
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 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
France
Switzerland
Sweden
Australia
New Zealand
Self-help groups Self-help groups Self-help groups for mental health
Related movements
Anti-psychiatry movement
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