Psychiatric Liberation

Course Description

Exploring the issues surrounding the treatment of the "mentally ill" in institutions and our wider society. Particularly the issues of forced treatment, pharmaceutical drugs, and stigmatization of the mentally ill.

Wikipedia articles

• Liberation psychology
• Anti-psychiatry
• Outline of the psychiatric survivors movement

Syllabus

• Language and "Mental Illness"
• History of Psychiatric Institutionalization
• Psychopharmaceutical drugs and herbal remedies
• Shamanism and Psychosis
• Social constructions of mental illness
• Stigma

The Outside World

• Freedom Center
• The Icarus Project
• Support Coalition International

See also

• Notes on The Myth of Mental Illness, by Thomas Szasz
• Anti-psychiatry
• Critical psychiatry
• Critical psychology
• Szaszian studies

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