DST 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Elizabeth Packard, Thomas Szasz, Anti-Psychiatry

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Danielle Landry

Document Summary

Explore the oppression and agency of people with mental disorders and the battle against psychiatry and psychiatric discourse, as well as antipsychiatry approaches and physchiatric survivor narratives. Recognizing the voices of the mad, oppressed, the ex-inmates of societie"s asylums as they come together and speak for themselves. Demonstrate the movement to reclaim psychic spaces of resistance against the psychiatric dominations of mad people, which reduces mad people to a collection of chemical imbalances in a capitalist system ( 2, ii) Prizing the long standing resistance to big pharma and profiteers in the psychiatric system. Protested the objectification of mad people (p. 5 iii) European psychiatrists: found the psychiatric profesion to be dehumanizing for mad people. Simultaneously, classified mad people withing and beyond institutions were organizing through democratic action mental illness patient"s liberation , consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x). Different versions of these movements varried across the globe. Historical legacies politics, race politics, anti colonial resistance, and other marginalized groups.