Past and current concepts of “Anti-Psychiatry”: Does it have a future?
Anti psychiatry can better be called Anti Establishment Psychiatry has been propounded be cause of the differences it had with the establishment of Psychiatry of those days for lack of humanitarian approach and not considering the social causation, and leaning so much on somatic treatments whose mod...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.amhsjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2321-4848;year=2019;volume=7;issue=2;spage=284;epage=286;aulast=Kavirayni |
| Summary: | Anti psychiatry can better be called Anti Establishment Psychiatry has been propounded be cause of the differences it had with the establishment of Psychiatry of those days for lack of humanitarian approach and not considering the social causation, and leaning so much on somatic treatments whose mode of action is questionable. Unlike Scientology which meant abolition of Psychiatry as a speciality , the anti Psychiatry movement envisaged only reforms in approach to a Psychiatry patient. |
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| ISSN: | 2321-4848 |