antipsychiatry

British

/ ˌæntɪsaɪˈkaɪətrɪ /

noun

an approach to mental disorders that makes use of concepts derived from existentialism, psychoanalysis, and sociological theory

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I don’t want to get into the space of being antipsychiatry — that take is simplifying.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

He started to read books on psychoanalysis, antipsychiatry, oriental mysticism, Zen – all aspects of 1960s counterculture, whose grand idea was that we are conditioned, and that we must free ourselves from this conditioning.

From The Guardian • Nov. 7, 2019

Instead, Rosenhan’s study gave the imprimatur of science to a growing antipsychiatry movement.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2019

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