Anti-psychiatry facts for kids
There are a number of social and political movements that question certain practices of psychiatry, which became known as anti-psychiatry. One movement originated during the French Revolution of 1789 and was influenced by romantic ideals. Another movement started in Germany around 1900. The third big movement was stated in the United States and Europe in the 1960s. This movement questioned the classification of Schizophrenia as a mental illness, to be treated by psychiatry and also wanted to highlight certain problems of psychiatric wards.
One of the people who influenced the 1960s movement a great deal was Michel Foucault. His book Madness and Insanity: History of Madness in the Classical Age is about the question at what point madness starts.
South African psychiatrist David Cooper was the first to use the word “anti-psychiatry”. He first used it in 1967.
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Anti-psychiatry symbol
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The Woodilee Hospital was opened in 1875 in Scotland.
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Graveyard attached to the Church of St. Thomas in West Yorkshire, England, where thousands of internees from Storthes Hall Hospital are buried in unmarked graves
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Scientologists on an anti-psychiatry demonstration
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Anti-psychiatric movement in Poland.
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A madness of civilization: the American physician Samuel A. Cartwright identified what he called drapetomania, an ailment that caused slaves to be possessed by a desire for freedom and a want to escape.
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Whitchurch Hospital.
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A Bergonic chair "for giving general electric treatment for psychological effect, in psycho-neurotic cases", according to original photo description. World War I era.
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With the decline of industrial age psychiatric hospitals, efforts to rehabilitate them have begun, like the Traverse City State Hospital becoming the Village at Grand Traverse Commons, complete with homes, offices, and businesses, including a wine bar
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In Spanish: Antipsiquiatría para niños
