Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment can be often more damaging than helpful...
137 KB (15,547 words) - 19:40, 20 October 2024
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of deleterious mental conditions. These include various matters...
96 KB (11,009 words) - 08:25, 5 September 2024
Psychiatry is, and has historically been, viewed as controversial by those under its care, as well as sociologists and psychiatrists themselves. There...
75 KB (8,508 words) - 01:17, 19 September 2024
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is an anti-psychiatry lobbying organization established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology...
35 KB (3,777 words) - 15:23, 5 October 2024
The Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN) is a psychiatric organization based in the United Kingdom. It was created by a group of British psychiatrists who...
34 KB (4,129 words) - 03:17, 14 August 2024
relates to one's own destiny", usually in a negative and hostile manner. In psychiatry, delusions of reference form part of the diagnostic criteria for psychotic...
12 KB (1,497 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2024
David Cooper (psychiatrist) (category Anti-psychiatry)
South African-born psychiatrist and theorist who was prominent in the anti-psychiatry movement. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955...
9 KB (1,006 words) - 15:52, 5 September 2024
History of schizophrenia (section Anti-psychiatry)
: 54–55 Anti-psychiatry refers to a diverse collection of thoughts and thinkers that challenge the medical concept of schizophrenia. Anti-psychiatry emphasizes...
43 KB (5,058 words) - 07:20, 6 October 2024
between Scientology and psychiatry has been dominated by strong opposition by the organization against the medical specialty of psychiatry and of psychology...
89 KB (10,220 words) - 02:32, 17 September 2024
and Guattari develop a critique of Freud and Lacan's psychoanalysis, anti-psychiatry, and Freudo-Marxism (with its insistence on a necessary mediation between...
43 KB (5,301 words) - 07:38, 24 September 2024