Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement

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

History of the psychiatric survivors movement

• History of mental disorders

Issues

• Coercion
  • Involuntary treatment
  • Involuntary commitment
  • Outpatient commitment
• Mentalism (discrimination)

Psychiatry

Psychiatry (outline)

• Mental disorder
  • History of mental disorder
• Mental Health
• Therapeutic relationship

Organisations

Related movements

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