Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 1

Search Tags:

Categories:

Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 1

Uploaded by: psychetruth
Video Description:
Dr. John Breeding, Ph.D. Psychologist talks about the mental health liberation movement, the anti-psychiatry movement, the movement against psychiatric oppression. Sometimes seen as antipsych or antipsychiary or anti-biological psychiatry.
This is a movement made up mostly of ex-mental health consumers and the family members of ex-mental health consumers who feel they have been damaged by psychiatry. These people refer to themselves as psychiatric survivors. There are also several medical and mental health professionals that reject
the belief system of biological psychiatry Links The Coalition for the Abolition of Electroshock in Texas http://www.endofshock.com Able Child Parents for Label and Drug Free Eduction http://www.ablechild.org Law Project for Psychiatric Rights http://www.psychrights.org MindFreedom Int
ernational http://www.mindfreedom.org ECT dot org The Committee for Truth in Psychiatry http://www.ect.org Psychiatrist Peter Breggin's website http://www.breggin.com International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology http://www.icspp.org International Coalition for Drug Awa
reness Ann Blake Tracy http://www.drugawareness.org Citizen's Commission on Human Rights International http://www.cchr.org Al Siebert's website http://resiliencycenter.com Chipmunka Publishing (specializes in books by psychiatric survivors) http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk Visit Dr. Bree
dings website. http://www.wildestcolts.com This video was produced by psychetruth. http://www.youtube.com/psychetruth http://www.livevideo.com/psychetruth http://www.myspace.com/psychtruth A better quality full length version of this video can be found on livevideo.com. http://www.livevideo.com/
psychetruth

Tags for this video: anti antidepressants antipsych ect health illness mental psychiatric psychiatry psychology psychtruth recovery suvivor

Find more videos in the "Education" category
See more videos uploaded by psychetruth

Related Videos

When Your Family Insist You have Mental Illness - Part 1	Psychiatry/Psychology in Schools	Psychiatry the fraud

Psychiatry Drugs Foster Care Children - Andrew	Recovery: Schizophrenia Mental Illness -- Psychology	Hallucinations Schizophrenia Extreme States of Mind Part 1

Share This Video:

Comments for this video: Show || Hide

Comments for this video on YouTube

I hate to go on ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

I hate to go on about Louis Wain's situation but if you see how his art changes over time and you understand how much direct control he had over the way he chose to paint then its pretty clear how disturbing his life must have become for him. In the end all of his cats no longer looked like cats anymore. They were just fine
faceless geometric. It was as if all he had left in his life to keep him company were these cold, fear based, hyper objectified calculations from from his head.

Sometimes I wish I ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

Sometimes I wish I could get a second chance at writing my words out.

I got to thinking ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

I got to thinking about Louis Wain's situation even more and I figure that maybe the guy was paranoid because it doesn't quite make sense to me how someone could WANT to think themselves into such a deteriorative situation.

Then that leads to ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

Then that leads to my final question. How do we manage, deal with or eliminate paranoia without using drugs while trying to lead a regular productive life from day to day?

I think I'm more ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

I think I'm more able to break from some of my paranoid thoughts when I can feel the real positive effects of naturally unique yet lovingly human interactions that can I share with people.

Somehow though that ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

Somehow though that only feels like I may have only found part of the answer to this.

I guess music, ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organized itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. -Alexis Korner

There is no such ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. -R. D. Laing

I haven't read ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

I haven't read about Louis Wain's situation but I have a pretty good feeling that I won't end up like the way he did seeing as I feel pretty healthy and fairly all right, right now.

I've seen a pretty ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

I've seen a pretty eye opening interview with Psychologist Daniel Fisher about the possible recovery from schizophrenia and other conditions. I think its a video that more people should check out because it shows not only is there hope for recovery but the very fact that he himself successfully had gone to school to become a psychiatrist AFTER being diagnosed as a schizophrenic himself is direct of what a recovered schizophrenic can achieve.

.. a direct example ... ( 6 months ago by Seabrook78in)

.. a direct example of what a recovered schizophrenic can achieve*

wait is this ... ( 5 months ago by gottenjet)

wait is this movement to rid of all psychiatrist? U no if that happened It would be putting a lot of people on the streets. And another question would be if you had a patient with an Xtrem case would you not want to medicate that patient?

No. The mental ... ( 5 months ago by psychetruth)

No. The mental health system doesn't need to disappear, it needs to be reformed. Medications have a place in acute care. Obviously if someone is bashing their head against a wall, a tranquilizer could be appropriate. To date, none of the psychiatric medications actually cure the disorders and when chronically used the side effects often result in organ damage and early death.

Not all ... ( 3 months ago by suarez976)

Not all psychiatrists are drug dosing nuts, but perhaps the majority is. The drugs also may or may not cause dependency, the major problem being that it's said that they don't cause any problem related to dependency at all.

According to Thomas ... ( 2 months ago by eydos)

According to Thomas Szasz an institution based on falsities can not be reformed, it needs to be abolished, and I agree with him.
For example I am what many people would call depressed, pessimist and so on. While they contend that I "need help" I contend that no, I have the right to stay as I am, to stick to my sel identity and take my so called symptoms as part of my understanding of the world good or bad. Therefore I am not "suffering", I am just different and somehow like it. Thanks.

great introduction. ... ( 2 months ago by charlottejean1205)

great introduction. you are doing fantastic work. keep it up. :)

You do have some ... ( 2 months ago by WikiPeoples)

You do have some very interesting points. I don't think you're wrong, but I don't necessarily think you're totally correct. I do believe that psychiatric illnesses *do* exist. Maybe I am wrong (seriously), but I believe it's been proven that lack of certain hormones / neurotransmitters / etc. can lead to mental illness. These medications, do cure these problems don't they? Maybe your point is, people "want to believe" that they have a label, so they have an easy way out?

No psychiatric ... ( 2 months ago by psychetruth)

No psychiatric medications do not cure the problem. They suppress (to a greater or lessor degree) they symptoms. Like taking a pain killer for a broken leg, it drug covers up the pain but does absolutely nothing to help the broken leg heal. Or Like taking over-the-counter flu remedies, they alter the body's response so you don't have a runny nose but it does nothing to attack the virus causing the problem.

Psychiatry is a ... ( 2 months ago by psychetruth)

Psychiatry is a practice with about 350 mental disorder it's diagnoses and basically five categories of drugs. Antipsychotics - slow down the CNS Amphetamines - speed up the CNS Anxiety medications - Inhibit stress response Antidepressants - Honestly, scientist don't knows exactly what these do. Anticonvulsants - slow down the CNS All disorders are treated with one more of these drugs.

That's a good point ... ( 2 months ago by WikiPeoples)

That's a good point, I suppose "cure" isn't the appropriate termonology to describe the use of psychiatric medications. That said, I think it's a stretch to advocate that they're useless, right? I don't pretend to know, in all honestly, but my inclination is that these medications can pull people out of "ruts" they might be in, just like flu-medication, pain killers, other such medications are used to HELP you through a difficult experience (not cure it). Your thoughts?

Perhaps psychiatric ... ( 1 month ago by SuzieQue1971)

Perhaps psychiatric illnesses do exist, but so often it is more like America doesn't want to admit the atrocities that happen here. Psychiatry works to silence people whose experiences have not been so picturesque. Can you imagine how it feels to experience rape, incest, or child abuse; then have psychiatrists work with families who perpetrated or enabled these events to tell you that YOU are fundamentally defective? It happens!

Someone once said ... ( 1 month ago by SmileNow2)

Someone once said when the only tool you have is a hammer your going to see every problem as a nail.
Of course there are about 350 mental disorders. It makes the people who vote on them feel as if they are doing something important.

Psychiatric ... ( 1 month ago by SmileNow2)

Psychiatric medication might be helpful perhaps in extreme cases where there is absolutely no alternative. Currently there is no physiological test which can show that a person has a chemical imbalance. This perhaps can explain why psychiatrists often have a hard time describing a normal brain with balanced chemicals.
In a previous comment you also stated that psychiatric medications cure. I think the more appropriate word to describe the situation is manage, or perhaps mask.

i love your channel ... ( 3 weeks ago by MCOGBDOG)

i love your channel keep up the good work!

Tell a friend:

Filme YouTube

Vino si distreaza-te alaturi de noi! Filme YouTube Best of !

Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 1

URL
Embed Code- add this media to your site