antipsychiatry

/ ˌæntɪsaɪˈkaɪətrɪ /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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In the years since, Gøtzsche, who has no special training in psychiatry, has become a fixture on the antipsychiatry circuit, criticizing the discipline in editorials, in presentations, and at various symposia about withdrawing from psychiatric medications.

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

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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.

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The antipsychiatry movement has long argued that the language of "mental illness" hurts more than helps those with emotional problems, because it fuels discrimination and alienation.

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