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antipsychiatry
/ 藢忙苍迟瑟蝉补瑟藞办补瑟蓹迟谤瑟 /
noun
- an approach to mental disorders that makes use of concepts derived from existentialism, psychoanalysis, and sociological theory
Example Sentences
I don鈥檛 want to get into the space of being antipsychiatry 鈥 that take is simplifying.
In the years since, G酶tzsche, 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.
Instead, Rosenhan鈥檚 study gave the imprimatur of science to a growing antipsychiatry movement.
He started to read books on psychoanalysis, antipsychiatry, oriental mysticism, Zen 鈥 all aspects of 1960s counterculture, whose grand idea was that we are conditioned, and that we must free ourselves from this conditioning.
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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