anti-psychiatry
Challenges psychiatric authority
Anti-psychiatry is a movement or stance opposing mainstream psychiatric practice, particularly involuntary treatment, diagnostic labeling, and the medical model of mental illness.
Critics argue that psychiatry pathologizes normal human variation, relies too heavily on medication, and exercises coercive power over patients.
The term emerged in the 1960s but the skepticism persists: She's read all the anti-psychiatry literature and refuses to see a therapist.
Releasing long-term patients systemwide
- mad prideMovement reclaiming psychiatric identity
- FoucaultProminent French family name
- neurodiversityInnate cognitive differences concept
- peer supportAid from similar others
self-advocacy · liberation · empowerment · resistance · grassroots · activism · advocacy
Excessive pharmaceutical treatment
- pathologizationFraming as illness
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- misdiagnosisIncorrect identification of ailment
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
stigma · side-effects · malpractice · pseudoscience · medicalization · overdiagnosis · informed consent · autonomy
Electrical brain stimulation treatment
- lobotomySevering prefrontal neural pathways
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
- antidepressantsMedications treating clinical despair
- benzodiazepinesSedative-hypnotic drug class
psychopharmacology · restraints · seclusion · involuntary commitment · institutionalization · asylum · medication · sedation
Psychiatric classification manual
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- mental illnessDisorder affecting cognition or mood
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
- bipolarHaving two opposite poles
depression · ADHD · personality disorder · neurosis · classification · categories · reliability · validity
deinstitutionalization
Releasing long-term patients systemwide
- mad prideMovement reclaiming psychiatric identity
- FoucaultProminent French family name
- neurodiversityInnate cognitive differences concept
peer support · self-advocacy · liberation · empowerment · resistance · grassroots · activism · advocacy
overmedication
Excessive pharmaceutical treatment
- pathologizationFraming as illness
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- misdiagnosisIncorrect identification of ailment
labeling · stigma · side-effects · malpractice · pseudoscience · medicalization · overdiagnosis · informed consent · autonomy · ethics
electroconvulsive therapy
Electrical brain stimulation treatment
- lobotomySevering prefrontal neural pathways
- antipsychoticsDrugs treating severe mental disorders
- antidepressantsMedications treating clinical despair
benzodiazepines · psychopharmacology · restraints · seclusion · involuntary commitment · institutionalization · asylum · medication · sedation · shock therapy
DSM
Psychiatric classification manual
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
- mental illnessDisorder affecting cognition or mood
- schizophreniaPsychotic disorder with delusions
bipolar · depression · ADHD · personality disorder · neurosis · classification · categories · reliability · validity · symptom
- health stancespro-vaccine, anti-vaccine, anti-vax, pro-life, pro-choice
- Psychiatry Critiqueovermedicating, overdiagnosis, involuntary treatment, involuntary commitment, patient rights
- mental healthmental illness, therapist, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologist
- philosophy of mindmind-body problem, mental states, consciousness, qualia, intentionality
- Deleuze-Guattarirhizome, assemblage, deterritorialization, becoming, immanence
anti-psychiatrypsychopharmacology
Study of drug-brain interactions
electroconvulsive therapy · pharmacotherapy · medication management · involuntary commitment