Personal Development through Thinking

‘Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist talks about the mental health liberation movement, the anti-psychiatry movement, the movement against psychiatric oppression. Sometimes seen as antipsych or antipsychiary or anti-biological psychiatry.This is a movement made up mostly of ex-mental health consumers and the family members of ex-mental health consumers who feel they have been damaged by psychiatry. These people refer to themselves as psychiatric survivors. There are also several medical and mental health professionals that reject the belief system of biological psychiatry’

A footnote to anyone interested in the anti-psychiatry movement. I would argue that to say people who speak out against established mental health practice are ‘Lefty’s’ or ‘unscientific’ or ‘extremists’ or ‘ignorant of the facts’ is irrelevant. It is the content of what is being said and not who is saying it that has value. And that value has to be decided by critically examining what is being said.