DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Andrew Scull, Gluttony, Anti-Psychiatry
18 Oct 2016
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How do we refer to ourselves: psychiatric survivor: A growing number of mental health service recipients refer to themselves as survivors, because they survived in a society that devalued their personal experience, and a psychiatric system that oppresses: ex-patient: One can become complacent and a passive recipient of care, getting used to playing the sick role. Ex-patients" are those that learn to resist the patient role, and refuse to understand themselves as chronically ill: consumer: In the 80s, some mental health organizations started using the term consumer", as it was considered better than patient" at the time. Suggested a significant restructuring of the service system through the use of purchasing power implying that we are like anyone else, seeking a service. People with lived experience" (pwles: critique: everyone has lived experience technically. We"ll be using the term survivor" and the term mad".
