Antipsychiatry

The antipsychiatry is a psychiatric Théorie which is opposed to the traditional Psychiatrie and interprets rather the Mental disease from the point of view Sociologique.

Contents of the theory

For some, the central conviction on which converge the large currents of the antipsychiatry is that the Asile should disappear and the patients to find all their rights of citizens in a company which could accommodate them, to take into account their creative potentialities.

For others, generally little convinced by the psychiatric theories, it is that the Psychiatrie is a medical institution not , but rather political and/or religious medicalized attempting to solve not problems or evils of the patients whom it treats , but well problems arising with the community by the behavior of these same patients , and this by means of coercive processes (internments, treatments, lies) contrary with the principles of the Rule of law.

For some, the war-horse of the antipsychiatry is the question of the " Relativity of normal and pathological the ". For others, less inclined to play with the self-evident truths, the object of the antipsychiatry is the invalidation of the dichotomy " sain" /" pathologique" instituting the concept of " norme" like anatomical and medical paradigm rather than like social, sociétale, morals, philosophical and/or political variable, and devoting of this fact the confiscation, by the psychiatrists, of political and social problems like health measure.

Origins

Born with the beginning of the year 1960, these large currents were almost always the fact of experts: Ronald Laing, David Cooper and Aaron Eterson in England, Free Basaglia, Giovanni Jervis and Gian Free Minguzzi in Italy, of the hospital doctors of the public service (Louis Guillant, Lucien Bonnafé, François Tosquelle…) engaged in a polemical rich person with Michel Foucault in France.

Work of Thomas Szasz, psychiatrist American, who as of the years 1950, published many very critical works with regard to the institution to which it belonged then - thus attracting the lightnings of his/her colleagues -, played a determining role in the development of criticisms of the theories and psychiatric practices emitted by the antipsychiatres.

Influences of the theory

In addition, the antipsychiatric theses also largely influenced the family systemic Thérapies " , which, without completely freeing itself from the terminology of mental hygiene (cf their denomination), approaches " the folie" under the emissary angle of Victim, kind of role of " insane of the roi" who, by his control, would amongst other things denounce the family myths into force in a given system. It is this denunciation which would be indicated of " folie" and stigmatized. It is the same " dissident" Soviet who must have a good amount of " folie" to denounce the myth of the " Paradise of the travailleurs".

Indicative bibliography

  • Free Basaglia, institution in negation , Threshold, 1970

  • Lucien Bonnafé, In this populated night , social Editions, 1977
  • Lucien Bonnafé, popular Psychiatrie, by which? for what? , Editions of Scarab3ee, 1981
  • Giuseppe Bucalo, Dictionary antipsychiatric , 1997 (extracts)
  • David Cooper, Died of the family, Threshold, 1972
  • David Cooper, Psychiatry and antipsychiatry , Threshold, 1978
  • David Cooper, the language of the madness , Threshold, 1978
  • Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the Anti-Oedipus , Midnight, 1972.
  • Mony Elkaïm, Network Alternative to psychiatry , UGE, 1977
  • Michel Foucault, History of the madness at the traditional age , Gallimard, 1972
  • Harold Heyward/Mireille Varigas, " An Antipsychiatry? The Madness In " Questions; , Psychothèque, 1971
  • Giovanni Jervis, the myth of the antipsychiatry , Plaster filling, 1977
  • Ronald Laing, the policy of the family, Stock, 1972
  • Louis Guillant, Which psychiatry for our time? , Eras, 1984
  • Gian Free Minguzzi, Dinamica psicologica dei gruppi sociali , it Muliono, 1973
  • Thomas S. Szasz, the myth of the mental disease , Payot, 1975
  • Thomas S. Szasz, the myth of the psychoanalysis , Payot, 1976
  • Thomas S. Szasz, Karl Kraus and doctors of the heart , Hatchet, 1985

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • French association Against the Psychiatric Abuse (depends on the Scientologie )
  • Groupe Information Asylums
  • National federation of Associations of (ex) Patient in Psychiatry
  • Fanzine dealing of the antipsychiatry and schizophrenia

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