Anti-psychiatry

Anti-psychiatry is the view that psychiatric treatments are often more damaging than helpful to patients, and a movement opposing such treatments for almost two centuries. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Contemporary issues of anti-psychiatry include freedom versus coercion, racial and social justice, iatrogenic (harmful) effects of antipsychotic medications, personal liberty, social stigma, and the right to be different.

Anti-psychiatry

Anti-psychiatry is the view that psychiatric treatments are often more damaging than helpful to patients, and a movement opposing such treatments for almost two centuries. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Contemporary issues of anti-psychiatry include freedom versus coercion, racial and social justice, iatrogenic (harmful) effects of antipsychotic medications, personal liberty, social stigma, and the right to be different.