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	Psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike most other areas of medicine, there is an anti-psychiatry movement opposed to the practices of, and in some cases the existence of, psychiatry.
		Psychiatry is one of the clinical medical disciplines which involve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental and behavioral disorders such as clinical depression, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders.
		Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that studies, diagnoses and treats mental illness and behavioral disorders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psychiatry (2690 words)

	Anti-psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In its most general sense, anti-psychiatry refers to approaches (sometimes seen as a coherent movement) which fundamentally challenge the theory or practice of psychiatry (the application of the medical method to problematic emotions, thoughts or behaviors).
		Psychiatry has been and is at the forefront of the practice of basing mental health care in hospital wards or other medical settings, and using legally-sanctioned force to admit individuals against their will.
		Common criticisms include that: psychiatry assumes medical concepts and tools that are not always appropriate; is too dominant compared to other approaches; has too many financial and professional links with pharmaceutical companies; uses a system of categorical diagnosis that is over-simplified and stigmatizing; is experienced by too many of its 'patients' as demeaning and controlling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-psychiatry (3901 words)

	Untitled Document
		The anti psychiatry movement developed in the late 50's and 60's and was critical of the theories and the therapeutic treatments of conventional psychiatry, particularly the use of drugs and Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT or shock treatment) and involuntary hospitalisation.
		Anti- psychiatry claimed that illness is a physical concept and therefore cannot be applied to psychological disorder without any physical pathology.
		Followers of the movement claimed that diagnostic labelling stigmatised those with mental health problems, and they questioned the concepts of 'normal' and 'abnormal; 'sane' and 'insane'; recognising that the problem of mental distres is as often related to social issues as to 'causes' such as genetic defects and chemical imbalances.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /kate.broom/ths/Anti-Psychiatry/plath.htm (1426 words)

	spiked-health Column Breaking psychiatry's chains
		Both Laurance and Healy challenge the ascendancy of biological psychiatry from a perspective that emphasises the importance of wider social and cultural influences in both the causation and the treatment of mental illness.
		The central problem of psychiatry, Healy concludes, is that 'the majority of people who meet the criteria for a diagnosis of a particular psychiatric disorder cannot be shown to benefit specifically from the available treatments'.
		In the late 1990s, social psychiatry, with the support of a growing movement of past and present clients and patients of the mental health system, began to challenge the ascendancy of the biological model.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DBB5.htm (2675 words)

	anti-psychiary activism page
		Psychiatry causes disability and for that reason should be a focus of attention of human rights groups and intergovernmental organizations concerned with disability.
		Psychiatry is not the only source of human rights violations in the world.
		I.e., "two wrongs don't make a right." Psychiatry is not legitimated as social retribution, but as keepers of a segregated status, the lords of the selection process.
	home.earthlink.net /~tminkowitz/ap2.html (308 words)

	What has happened to a biopsychological approach in psychiatry
		Mainstream psychiatry's attack on anti-psychiatry for its denial of the reality of mental illness has obscured the extent to which some so-called anti-psychiatrists, such as R. Laing, adopted a biopsychological model of mental illness, not dissimilar to the approach of Adolf Meyer.
		The dominant tradition of mental illness in psychiatry is of the biomedical model.
		Meyer (1951/2) and biomedical psychiatry find different ways of accommodating to two main philosophical issues (i) the mind-body problem and (ii) the application of scientific method to the study of human nature.
	www.critpsynet.freeuk.com /Meyermyth.htm (3445 words)

	Review of Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands (eds) Gijswijt-hofstra M & Porter R
		For them to be seen as on the same side of the argument despite their substantial differences justifies Colin Jones' notion that the essence of anti-psychiatry derives from the sense in which psychiatry itself is regarded as part of the problem.
		Harry Oosterhuis and Saskia Wolters describe the impact on the professional identity of psychiatry in the Netherlands of the increasing separation of psychiatry and neurology, which encouraged a multicausal, bio-psycho-social approach to psychiatry as opposed to the one-sided somatic emphasis of neurology.
		The interpersonal psychiatry of J L Cameron, one of the co-authors of the Lancet article on the 'Rumpus Room', had more of an influence on Laing than is generally acknowledged, although Laing did make a distinctive contribution to part of the overall project.
	www.critpsynet.freeuk.com /cultures.htm (2437 words)

	Anti-Psychiatry's Journal
		I am against psychiatry because a friend of mine was told that her son could no longer attend school unless he took addictive amphetamines.
		I'm against psychiatry because much of their drugs have nasty permanent debilitating side effects such as tardive dyskinesia, and deadly side effects such as significantly increased diabetes risk and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
		I am against psychiatry because there are no objective tests for mental "illnesses", all diagnoses are made subjectively based on the opinions of individual psychiatrists who regularly come to differing conclusions regarding the same patient.
	community.livejournal.com /antipsychiatry (3232 words)

	Scientology takes pulpit with anti-psychiatry gospel - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Nation - News
		This was, rather, the latest round in a long-running campaign against psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry by this expanding Los Angeles-based religion, which has been immersed in controversies over its 51 years of existence.
		The church argues that psychiatry ''does not meet any known definition of a science, what with its hodgepodge of unproven theories that have never produced any result." It also considers reliance on psychotropic drugs as dangerous as past treatments such as electric shock or lobotomies.
		Scientology and psychiatry offer competing explanations of the source for mental problems and techniques to deal with them.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2005/07/10/scientology_takes_pulpit_with_anti_psychiatry_gospel (884 words)

	The Antipsychiatry Coalition
		Observatoire de la psychiatry - antipsychiatry group in France (in French)
		The health care quackery known as biological psychiatry and the violations of human rights done in the name of mental health are world-wide problems.
		Commentary: Against Biologic Psychiatry - by David Kaiser, M.D. Deadly Restraint - A Nationwide Pattern of Death - a series of newspaper articles about deaths of "patients" in psychiatric "hospitals" in the USA caused by cruel and irresponsible use of physical restraint against them by psychiatrists and associated mental health "professionals."
	www.antipsychiatry.org (1208 words)

	The limits of psychiatry -- Double 324 (7342): 900 -- BMJ
		The cultural role of psychiatry is more obviously open to criticism than is the case in the rest of medicine.
		Psychiatry departments in medical schools should teach these criteria and not belittle them, as has been the case for many years
		Illich made specific comments about psychiatry in his critique of medicalisation and the limits to medicine.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/324/7342/900 (2536 words)

	Scientology :: Anti-psychiatry exhibit OKd
		While criticism of psychiatry is a critical aspect of Scientology's belief structure, the state agency's attorneys concluded the display did not have religious overtones.
		The state contends that the group described the exhibition as a "history of psychiatry" in its application.
		It features blown-up photographs of what is alleged to be patients being abused, including undergoing electroshock treatment, and charged that psychiatrists have frequently abused their power and subjected patients to unsafe experiments or medical procedures.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /html/5345-Anti-psychiatry_exhibit_OKd.html (958 words)

	the minnesota review - ns. 55-57 - maria farland - sylvia plath's anti-psychiatry
		Plath's critique of psychiatry, like those of her counterparts, entwines a scathing indictment of psychiatry's coercive practices—such as electroshock and lobotomy—with a sophisticated sense of the normalizing tendencies that characterize even the most consensual modes of psychiatric treatment.
		Echoing the attacks on psychiatry led by contemporaries such as Szasz, Goffman, and Laing, Plath sought to evoke the repressive tendencies of large centralized institutions, typified by the asylum.
		Plath's use of the terms "slave" and "totalitarian" recalls Szasz's invocation of "totalitarian" psychiatry, just as The Bell Jar's emphasis on contractual therapeutic relations recalls Szasz's support for therapeutic approaches grounded in consent rather than in coercion.
	www.theminnesotareview.org /ns55/farland.htm (5485 words)

	SLS · Colloquia · The David Cooper Anti-page.
		David Cooper, an associate of R.D. laing, believes that mainstream psychiatry, preoccupied with the paraphernalia of the natural sciences, has developed techniques that are largely irrelevant to the human situation.
		His principal concern has been to develop existential psychiatry in Britain and to elaborate principles to overcome the methodological difficulties and compartmentalization of the human sciences.
		He attacks directly and without compromise the depersonalizing 'safeguards' imposed by modern society, and by the attitudes of conventional psychiatry in particular.
	laingsociety.org /colloquia/inperson/davidcooper (961 words)

	Psychological Therapies, Shropshire - From Anti-Psychiatry to Critical Psychology (article)
		Psychiatry and clinical psychology are both based on modernist notions of the self, which suggest that individuals can be studied and understood apart from context, culture and history (Gergen, 1999).
		This allows both psychiatry and psychology to pay lip service to the social and ideological origins of distress, while ignoring the political implications of this by emphasising theories and interventions that are individualistic in nature.
		We would argue that this is because the success of the social institutions of psychiatry and psychology rely on the continuation of inequality and oppression within society, which are supported by the fragmentation and individualisation of modern Western society.
	www.shropsych.org /antipsychiatryarticle.htm (1696 words)

	Antipsychiatry
		Anti-psychiatry is part of psychiatry but recognises that objectification of the mentally ill makes psychiatry part of the problem rather than the solution of mental illness (Jones 1997).
		In this context renewed criticism of modern psychiatry is needed and it may be important to resurrect "anti-psychiatry" ideas (Double 1992b, 1998).
		However, "anti-psychiatry" includes critics with differing views and the essence of its argument has not always been clear (Gijswijt-Hofstra and Porter 1998).
	www.uea.ac.uk /~wp276/define.htm (760 words)

	Psychiatry Anti-Psychiatry Re-Visited
		Anti psychiatry tries to reverse the rules of the Psychiatric game.
		Psychiatry is primarily a social institution which removes from society the "mentally ill and attempts to subdue their symptoms using drugs.
		This page should not be treated as a substitute to reading the original works but rather as an online outline to his work.
	home.att.net /~esetz (216 words)

	article.htm
		Psychiatry and the dominance of the bio-medical model.
		A critique of psychiatry and an invitation to dialogue.
		Deinstitutionalization of psychiatry in the Netherlands: or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in mental health.
	www.uea.ac.uk /~wp276/article.htm (1636 words)

	25 Good Reasons Why Psychiatry Must Be Abolished - Sue Clark's Psychiatry Buster Page - Page 6
		Because psychiatry is quackery, a pseudo-science which lacks independent diagnostic tests,testable hypotheses, and cures for "schizophrenia" and all other types of alleged "mental illness" or "mental disorder".
		Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is fascist - a direct threat to democracy, human rights and life.
		Because psychiatry, particularly institutional-biological psychiatry, is based on the 3 Fs: Fear, Fraud,and Force.
	www.geocities.com /sueclark2001ca/6.html (3924 words)

	psychology
		Both psychology and its related discipline psychiatry (whose practitioners are medical doctors with a specialty in mental health) are criticized by a vocal and well-credentialed (if small) minority in medical and academic circles.
		These critics call them pseudo-sciences, arguing that their theories, diagnoses and treatments don't hold up under the rigor of the scientific method and that they are not reproducible; others question the appropriateness of applying the scientific method to the study of the human mind and human behavior.
		Fields such as neuroscience, political science, media studies and gender studies have also come to be seen as closely related to psychology.
	www.findthelinks.com /arts/psychology.htm (773 words)

	Summary 1
		All stressing of “change” in psychiatry and all the emphatic glorification of its “reform” by the associations and the media, however, are by no means aiming to further improve the situation of the sick.
		In psychiatry they have reached their aims by less violent means than casting stones and firebombs against the police.
		Widening the scope of psychiatry to “Social Psychiatry” means widening and increasing government controls of our personal lives in all our countries.
	www.psychiatrie-und-ethik.de /summaries.htm (6275 words)

	Journal of Drugs in Dermatology: Non-psychotic uses for anti-psychotics
		Psychiatry reference texts as reputable within their field as the Fitzpatrick reference text is within the field of dermatology (Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry and Andreasen's New Oxford's Text of Psychiatry) were used to find common off-label, non-psychotic indications for the prescription of anti-psychotics.
		The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry and New Oxford's Text of Psychiatry describe many other non-psychotic indications for anti-psychotics (8,9).
		The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Physician's Drug Reference (PDR) websites were searched for FDA-approved, non-psychotic indications for the prescription of anti-psychotics.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PDG/is_2_3/ai_115505667 (1089 words)

	SLS · Colloquia · Villa 21 - an experiment in anti-psychiatry
		It was the author's belief that such small units might form the optimal therapeutic milieu for the sort of patients we had in mind, as they would allow a greater degree of freedom of movement out of the highly artificial staff and patient roles imposed on people by conventional psychiatry.
		But first of all it was necessary to explore the limits of change possible within the large mental hospital, to note the difficulties and contradictions that would arise, and to base future plans on such an assessment.
		Thirdly, there was the need to establish a viable prototype for a small autonomous unit which could function in a large house in the community, outside the psychiatric institutional context.
	laingsociety.org /colloquia/thercommuns/villa21.1.htm (3472 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Issues: Health: Mental Health: Anti-Psychiatry Organizations
		Psychiatry USA - Speaks out against fabricating disease labels, the pushing of psychiatric drugs, and shock therapy.
		Welcome World - Life education center for healing and serving others as ourselves - the alternative to the verbal and physical abuse of psychiatry.
		Eakman, Beverly - Articles and other links pertaining to this anti-psychiatric medication advocate, author, and spokesperson.
	dmoz.org /Society/Issues/Health/Mental_Health/Anti-Psychiatry_Organizations (402 words)

	BJP -- eLetters for TIMIMI and TAYLOR, 184 (1) 8-9
		An introduction to the new philosophy of psychiatry.
		Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 32(2), 297-306.
		Maternal lifestyle factors in pregnancy risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and associated behaviors: review of the current evidence.Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160: 1028- 1040
	bjp.rcpsych.org /cgi/eletters/184/1/8 (1223 words)

	ICSPP - Home
		The International Center for the Study of Psychology and Psychiatry (ICSPP) co-sponsors an annual competition for research funding to the Kevin McCready Memorial Research Grant.
		For over 25 years ICSPP has been informing the professions, the media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, and the biological theories of psychiatry.
		ICSPP is concerned with the impact of mental health theories on public policy and the effects of therapeutic practices upon individual well-being, personal freedom, and family and community values.
	www.icspp.org (303 words)

	Amazon.com: Toxic Psychiatry : Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry": Books: Peter R. Breggin
		There is much deception in psychiatry, from seminars sponsored by large corporations which twist psychiatrists perceptions, to free samples given to psychiatrists which twist their prescription habits, to constant and repetitive advertising by pharmaceautical companies which engrains 'depression' and other illnesses in the minds of those who are subjected to these advertisments.
		Although I do believe "Toxic Psychiatry" shows a one-sided picture, I believe this does not obscure the point being made; that there is something seriously wrong with psychiatry and how it's methods of treatment are applied.
		There's one thing I didn't agree with Breggin about, which is his way of practicing psychiatry, which involves only talk and no medication.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312113668?v=glance (3268 words)

	Anti-Psychiatry
		He is the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than fifteen professional books about psychiatric medication, the FDA and drug approval process, the evaluation of clinical trials, and standards of care in psychiatry and related fields".
		Breggin has been informing the professions, media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, involuntary treatment, and the biological theories of psychiatry for over three decades.
		A novel exposing psychiatry crimes by Diane Klein.
	human-nature.com /odmh/anti.html (359 words)

	NYC Anti Psychiatry Therapy Center for depression, major depression, bi-polar reactions, schizophrenia, hallucinations, delusions, "chemical imbalances" with medication-free effective psychotherapy that is positive and constructive
		NYC Anti Psychiatry Therapy Center for depression, major depression, bi-polar reactions, schizophrenia, hallucinations, delusions, "chemical imbalances" with medication-free effective psychotherapy that is positive and constructive
		Anti-psychiatry, as a world-wide movement and anti-psychiatry groups representing "survivors of psychiatry" are still alive and well despite rumors to the contrary.
		Natural psychotherapy is not a medical enterprise nor a practice of psychiatry, but one that is thoroughly contextual and bio-psycho-social.
	naturalpsychotherapy.com /philosophy.htm (2008 words)

	Gerry Armstrong -- Protest at Scientology Anti-Psychiatry Exhibit, Vancouver, B.C., August 14, 2004
		Policy is that we assign any case or upset in Scientology to past damage and interference with the person by medicine or psychiatry.
		During our conversation, and in response to my criticisms of Scientology abuses and criminality, the guy asked which I considered most dangerous, psychiatry or the cult.
		Legitimate opposition to Scientology fraud, abuses and criminality fights the war on the cult’s terrain, and actions that attack the legitimate opposition serve Scientology& purposes by shifting the battlefield to the terrain of the cult’s enemies, its victims.
	www.gerryarmstrong.org /50grand/media/our/picket-2004-08-14.html (3776 words)

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