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Thesis ID: CBB575040905

Confronting the Power of Psychiatry: The Psychiatric Survivors' Movement, 1972-1986 (2018)

Allen, Madeleine Marie Parra (Author)
Muncy, Robyn (Advisor)

University of Maryland, College Park
Muncy, Robyn
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

URI: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2124645000?accountid=12964

Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 138 pp.

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Protest movements Social movements Human rights Electroconvulsive therapy; electroshock therapy Psychiatric hospitals Mental disorders and diseases Psychiatry 20th century, late

This thesis explores the history of the mental patients’ liberation movement in the 1970s-1980s. It shows how psychiatric survivors successfully contested the power and legitimacy of psychiatry via mutual support and self-help; activism as a grassroots social movement; and the creation of alternate conceptions of madness and patient-controlled alternatives to the mental health system. Ex-patients utilized their distinct knowledge to make the personal political, moving beyond the critiques of anti-psychiatrists, to fight psychiatric abuses such as electroshock and forced drugging. It covers the movement’s tactics, most successful local and national activism, and cross-movement alliances – especially its anti-incarceration work with the prisoners’ rights movement. It offers a nuanced understanding of the tensions that led to the movement’s fracturing, and argues that activists adapted by retaining a “tempered liberation focus” that enabled them to work towards change and human rights within the psychiatric system while remaining true to their original liberatory goals.

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