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

Supporters

 * Richard Bentall
 * Patch Adams
 * Robert Whittaker
 * The Radical Therapist

History of the psychiatric survivors movement

 * History of mental disorders

People

 * 18th century
 * Samuel Bruckshaw
 * 19th century
 * Elizabeth Packard
 * Early 20th century
 * Clifford Whittingham Beers
 * Late 20th century to the present
 * Linda Andre
 * Ted Chabasinski
 * Judi Chamberlin
 * Lyn Duff
 * Leonard Roy Frank
 * Kate Millett
 * David Oaks

Issues

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

Pharmaceutical industry

 * Pharmaceutical industry
 * Allen Jones (whistleblower)
 * Anatomy of an Epidemic

Harmful practices

 * Eugenics
 * Psychosurgery
 * Electroconvulsive therapy
 * Psychoactive drug

Psychiatry
Psychiatry (outline)
 * Mental disorder
 * History of mental disorder
 * Mental Health
 * Therapeutic relationship

Psychiatric services

 * Services for mental disorders
 * Care programme approach (UK)

Public agencies

 * 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

 * See Outline of psychiatry

International/Cross-border groups

 * 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

 * 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

 * We Shall Overcome
 * Aurora
 * Mental Helse
 * White Eagle
 * LPP

Canada

 * Mental Patients' Association

Germany

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

Netherlands

 * Clientenbond
 * Geesdrift

United States

 * 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

Self-help groups

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

People

 * Franco Basaglia
 * David Cooper (psychiatrist)
 * Michel Foucault
 * R.D. Laing
 * Loren Mosher
 * Thomas Szasz anti-coercive psychiatry

Publications

 * Against Therapy
 * Anti-Oedipus
 * Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry
 * Madness and Civilization

Organisations

 * American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization