# 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#Legal framework for psychiatric treatment

## Organisations
### Advocacy groups, by region
#### 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

#### New Zealand
### Self-help groups

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

## Related movements
### Anti-psychiatry movement
#### 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