Tuesday, July 30, 2024

What is anti-psychiatry?

I’ve complained before that people continue to use the term ‘anti-psychiatry’ without being clear what they mean (see eg. previous post). There are people that want to abolish psychiatry and maybe that is the only way in which the term ‘antipsychiatry’ (without the hyphen) should be used (see another previous post). 

Psychiatry does need to change. The trouble with using the term anti-psychiatry is that it marginalises legitimate critique. 

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