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Anti-psychiatry — Wikipedia (en)

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Anti-psychiatry, is an ideology that criticizes the theoretical foundations and practices of psychiatry. Proponents of the movement include psychiatrists, philosophers, sociologists, and former psychiatric patients (often referring to themselves as "psychiatric survivors"). Criticism includes the reliability of diagnostic labels, the effectiveness and potential harm of medications and treatments, and concerns about human rights and civil freedom. The term anti-psychiatry was coined in 1912 by Dr. Bernhard Beyer, and popularized in the 1960s by figures on the New Left, including Michel Foucault and R.D. Laing. Historical critiques of psychiatry focus on lobotomies and treatments no longer in use, while modern issues include involuntary hospitalization, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy. The term "anti-psychiatry" is controversial due to the differing viewpoints among proponents, which range from extreme conspiracy theories to legitimate social and human rights concerns. Anti-psychiatry questions the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of psychotherapy and psychoactive medication, which emphasizes internal personal factors, and largely ignores external social and political forces. Some activists reject the medical model of mental illness, instead viewing it through a lens of philosophy and sociology. Anti-psychiatry considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor, therapist, and patient or client, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Involuntary commitment, also known as sectioning, is considered by proponents to be an unjust violation of human agency. The decentralized movement has been active in various forms for two centuries. In the 1960s, there were many challenges to psychoanalysis and mainstream psychiatry, in which the very basis of psychiatric practice was characterized as repressive and controlling. Psychiatrists identified with the anti-psychiatry movement include Thomas Szasz, Timothy Leary, R. D. Laing, Franco Basaglia, Theodore Lidz, Silvano Arieti, and David Cooper. Others involved were Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Erving Goffman. Cooper used the term "anti-psychiatry" in 1967, and wrote the book Psychiatry and Anti-psychiatry in 1971. The word Antipsychiatrie was already used in Germany in 1904. In The Myth of Mental Illness (1961), Thomas Szasz argued that the concept of mental illness as a disease is valid only if a demonstrable bodily pathology exists, which, according to him, was absent in conditions classified as mental illnesses. In the preface to the latest edition, however, he wrote that he had been directly undermined by the movement led by David Cooper (1931–1986) and that Cooper sought to replace psychiatry with his own brand of it. Giorgio Antonucci, who advocated a non-psychiatric approach to psychological suffering, did not consider himself to be part of the antipsychiatric movement. His position is represe

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Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Anti-psychiatry» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
Wikidata Q582667: «approccio teorico che si pone in contrasto con la psichiatria tradizionale» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q582667
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