Outline_of_the_psychiatric_survivors_movement Knowpia

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? edit

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 edit

Victim of psychiatry
- Mental health consumer
  - Mental patient : currently redirects to Mental disorder
    - Former mental patient
      - Lunatic

Supporters edit

History of the psychiatric survivors movement edit

History of mental disorders

People edit

18th century
- Samuel Bruckshaw
19th century
- Elizabeth Packard
Early 20th century
- Clifford Whittingham Beers
Late 20th century to the present

Issues edit

Coercion
Mentalism (discrimination)

Pharmaceutical industry edit

Harmful practices edit

Psychiatry edit

Psychiatry (outline)

Psychiatric services edit

Public agencies edit

United Kingdom
- England and Wales
  - Commissioners in Lunacy
United States of America
- Federal Bodies
  - National Council on Disability
  - New Freedom Commission on Mental Health

Legal framework for psychiatric treatment edit

See Outline of psychiatry#Legal framework for psychiatric treatment

Organisations edit

Advocacy groups, by region edit

International/Cross-border groups edit

Pan-African Network of People with Psychosocial Disabilities
European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry
MindFreedom International
TCI-Aisa
GROW
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry

United Kingdom edit

Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society (19C)
Survivors Speak Out (20C)
United Kingdom Advocacy Network (20C)
MindLink
National Service User Network (21C)
Mental Health Resistance Network (21C)

Norway edit

We Shall Overcome
Aurora
Mental Helse
White Eagle
LPP

Canada edit

Mental Patients' Association

Germany edit

Socialist Patients' Collective
Bundesverband Psychiatrie-Erfahrener BPE-eV
International Association Against Psychiatric Assault

Netherlands edit

Clientenbond
Geesdrift

United States edit

Committee for Truth in Psychiatry
Hearing Voices Movement
Hearing Voices Network
Icarus Project
Insane Liberation Front
Mad Pride
Mental Patients Liberation Front
MindFreedom International
National Empowerment Center
Network Against Psychiatric Assault
Mental Patients' Liberation Alliance

France edit

Switzerland edit

Sweden edit

Australia edit

New Zealand edit

Self-help groups edit

Self-help groups
- Self-help groups for mental health

Related movements edit

Anti-psychiatry movement edit

People edit

Publications edit

Organisations edit

American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization

External links edit

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.