DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Margery Kempe, Elizabeth Packard, David Reville
19 Nov 2012
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Ex-patients were the first in the movement because they were later considered to no longer be patients. Consumer of mental health services: grew out of the survivor movement and to turn the system into something that would be better for the patients by getting professionals on their side. People considered mad have been fighting oppression from at least the 1400s. Here are some examples from english speaking countries. 1430s: margery kempe, first english autobiographical writer (u. k. : the experience for her was spiritual and was not heard from again until 1800s when her autobiography was found. 1840s: john perceval, gentleman activist (alleged lunatics friends society, u. k. : psychiatry and institutionalism officially began, institutions became hospitals. 1860s: elizabeth packard, activist for rights of women and inmates (anti insane asylum. Society, u. s. : was against the psychiatry system as it abused the inmates, elizabeth stone, activist for rights of women and inmates (u. s. ) 1910s: clifford beers, activist against force (national committee on mental hygiene,
