Anti-psychiatry Anti-psychiatry Aaron Esterson was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Association along with R. D. Laing ...more on Wikipedia about "Aaron Esterson"
Allen Jones, who worked as an investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General (OIG), gained widespread attention as a ' whistleblower' after voicing concerns about attempts by the pharmaceutical industry to implement a mental health screening plan, based on the controversial Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP), in Pennsylvania. Subsequently, TMAP has been recommended as a model for use throughout the United States by the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, a panel whose members were hand picked by George W. Bush. ...more on Wikipedia about "Allen Jones (whistleblower)"
Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients do not necessarily have a " mental illness", but in fact are individuals who do not ascribe to the same conventional belief system, or consensus reality, shared by most people in their particular culture. Adherents of this movement sometimes refer to "the myth of mental illness", after Dr. Thomas Szasz's controversial book, The Myth of Mental Illness. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anti-psychiatry"
Bruce E. Levine, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cincinnati, Ohio for nearly two decades. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruce Levine"
Chemical imbalance is a simplification of the language sometimes used by drug companies ** in the United States in advertising and consumer literature for psychoactive drugs after deregulation of pharmaceutical advertising. The term has its origins in the 'chemical hypothesis', which refers to a simplification of the series of hypothesised neurochemical changes thought to partially underly mental illness. This term is most often used by groups critical of the pharmaceutical treatment of mental illness ** . ...more on Wikipedia about "Chemical imbalance theory"
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is an advocacy group established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology and Thomas Szasz, to fight what it sees as human rights crimes committed by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Prominent anti-psychiatry advocate Dr. Peter Breggin worked with the group up until 1974. Breggin has since sought to dissociate himself from the organization. ...more on Wikipedia about "Citizens Commission on Human Rights"
South African psychiatrist Dr. David Cooper (b. 1931) is a noted anti-psychiatry movement figure, along with R. D. Laing, Thomas Szasz and Michel Foucault. Cooper graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1955. He moved to London, where he worked at several hospitals and directed an experimental unit for young schizophrenics called Villa 21. In 1965 he was involved with Laing and others in establishing the Philadelphia Association. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Cooper (psychiatrist)"
Pierre-Félix Guattari ( 1930 - 1992) was a French pioneer of institutional psychotherapy, as well as the founder of both Schizoanalysis and the science of Ecosophy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Félix Guattari"
The International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) is a nonprofit (503c) research and educational network whose focus is the critical study of the mental health professions and their consumer markets. ICSPP was originally founded in 1971 by psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin and his wife, Ginger Breggin. ICSPP publishes the scholarly journal, Ethical Human Sciences and Services. ...more on Wikipedia about "International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology"
The La Borde clinic opened in 1951 and is a psychiatric clinic. ...more on Wikipedia about "La Borde"
MindFreedom International is a coalition of over 100 grassroots groups and thousands of individual members in 14 nations committed to winning and protecting the human rights of people labeled with psychiatric disorders. MindFreedom has been recognized by the United Nations with consultative roster status. "A majority of MindFreedom members identify themselves as survivors of human rights violations in the mental health system, but membership is ... open to everyone who supports human rights, including mental health professionals, advocates, activists
Peter R. Breggin is a prominent and controversial psychiatrist from the United States. Dr. Breggin is most well known as a leading critic of biological psychiatry and psychiatric medication, and as the author of books such as Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Ritalin, and Talking Back to Prozac. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peter Breggin"
The Philadelphia Association is a UK "charity concerned with the understanding and relief of mental suffering." ...more on Wikipedia about "Philadelphia Association"
Pro-ana is a largely Internet-based movement which views the eating disorder anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice rather than a medical condition. There are a growing number of pro-ana websites and discussion groups where self-identified anorectics come together to discuss their condition, which some claim creates a reinforcing feedback loop. The movement is controversial because it contradicts current prevailing psychological and medical views. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pro-ana"
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A loose coalition of people feeling betrayed by psychiatry have come together to promote legal and treatment alternatives as members of the psychiatric survivors movement. The "psychiatric survivors movement" is also called the "consumer survivors movement." ...more on Wikipedia about "Psychiatric survivors movement"
Sally Satel, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist, a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of P.C. M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine ( 2001) and Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion ( 1999). Satel also serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Her articles have been published in The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and in scholarly publications on topics including psychiatry and addiction. She lives in Washington, D.C. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sally Satel"
:What the Church opposes are brutal, inhumane psychiatric treatments. It does so for three principal reasons: 1) procedures such as electro-shock, drugs and lobotomy injure, maim and destroy people in the guise of help; 2) psychiatry is not a science and has no proven methods to justify the billions of dollars of government funds that are poured into it; and 3) psychiatric theories that man is a mere animal have been used to rationalize, for example, the wholesale slaughter of human beings in World Wars I and II. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Scientology and psychiatry"
Sid Briskin was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Association along with R. D. Laing ...more on Wikipedia about "Sid Briskin"
The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a controversial book by Thomas Szasz. It is highly influential in the anti-psychiatry movement. In it, Szasz argues that mental illness is a social construct created by doctors, and the term can only be used as a metaphor given that an illness must be an objectively demonstrable biological pathology, whereas psychiatric disorders meet none of these criteria. What psychiatrists label mental illness is in fact a deviation from the consensus reality or common morality, Szasz says. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Myth of Mental Illness"
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. Szasz is a critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thomas Szasz"
The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP), originally founded in 1991 as the World Federation of Psychiatric Users (WFPU), is an international organisation of recipients of mental health services. WNUSP is dedicated to protecting the human rights, self-determination and dignity of all users and survivors of psychiatric treatment throughout the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry"
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