PSYC 4120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Human Rights Act, Anti-Psychiatry, Deinstitutionalisation
Document Summary
Deinstitutionalization: a social moment that continues to reverse the institutionalization of persons with mental illness and intellectual disabilities that began in the late 19th and 20th centuries in canada. It involves the process of removing residents from long-term institutions to integrated community-based settings. Ideology for deinstitutionalization can be traced back to anti-psychiatry, who some argue begin with historical examples of psychiatry being used as an oppressive arm of the state in nazi germany. Psychiatrists using talking cures like psychoanalysis as treatment were challenged by biological physical psychiatrists. In the 1960s, anti-psychiatry movement focused on the use of psychiatry as a means of controlling and pathologizing social deviance. Disability social movement arose in the 1970s as a human rights-based response to the discrimination that people with disabilities had historically faced in canada. Council of canadians with disabilities: defines itself as a national human rights organization of people with disabilities working for an accessible and inclusive canada".