Critical psychiatry: The implications for community mental health practice D B Double

The origins of community care

“Dismay and disgust with the old asylum system“

The origins of community care “Dismay and disgust with the old asylum system“ Opening the doors of the psychiatric hospital

The origins of community care “Dismay and disgust with the old asylum system“ Opening the doors of the psychiatric hospital Therapeutic milieu in hospital

The origins of community care “Dismay and disgust with the old asylum system“ Opening the doors of the psychiatric hospital Therapeutic milieu in hospital ‘Institutional neurosis' (Russell Barton)

The origins of community care “Dismay and disgust with the old asylum system“ Opening the doors of the psychiatric hospital Therapeutic milieu in hospital ‘Institutional neurosis' (Russell Barton) ‘Total institution' (Erving Goffman)

Critical psychiatry and community care

Thomas Scheff (1999) Being mentally ill

Critical psychiatry and community care Thomas Scheff (1999) Being mentally ill Franco Basaglia and law 180 in Italy

Critical psychiatry and community care Thomas Scheff (1999) Being mentally ill Franco Basaglia and law 180 in Italy Bracken & Thomas and home treatment in Bradford

Nature of critical psychiatry

Opposition to the reductionist tendency within psychiatry

Nature of critical psychiatry Opposition to the reductionist tendency within psychiatry More ethical foundation for practice

Nature of critical psychiatry Opposition to the reductionist tendency within psychiatry More ethical foundation for practice The term 'mental illness' may have meaning as a psychosocial concept

Nature of critical psychiatry Opposition to the reductionist tendency within psychiatry More ethical foundation for practice The term 'mental illness' may have meaning as a psychosocial concept Acknowledges the inevitable social dimension of psychiatric practice

Anti-psychiatry and institutionalisation

A whole new approach … without those features of psychiatric practice that seemed to belong to the sphere of social power and structure rather than to medical therapeutics (Laing1985).

Anti-psychiatry and institutionalisation A whole new approach … without those features of psychiatric practice that seemed to belong to the sphere of social power and structure rather than to medical therapeutics (Laing 1985). An effort to cease interference, to 'lay off' other people and give them and oneself a chance (David Cooper)

Anti-psychiatry and institutionalisation Villa 21 in Shenley Hospital

Anti-psychiatry and institutionalisation Villa 21 in Shenley Hospital Philadelphia Association established Kingsley Hall in 1965

Anti-psychiatry and institutionalisation Villa 21 in Shenley Hospital Philadelphia Association established Kingsley Hall in 1965 Rumpus room at Gartnavel hospital

Anti-psychiatry and institutionalisation Villa 21 in Shenley Hospital Philadelphia Association established Kingsley Hall in 1965 Rumpus room at Gartnavel hospital Joseph Berke and Leon Redler both worked with Maxwell Jones at Dingleton hospital before moving to Kingsley Hall

Critical psychiatry and other psychosocial approaches

Harry Stack Sullivan and Sheppard Pratt Hospital

Critical psychiatry and other psychosocial approaches Harry Stack Sullivan and Sheppard Pratt Hospital Adolf Meyer’s Psychobiology

Critical psychiatry and other psychosocial approaches Harry Stack Sullivan and Sheppard Pratt Hospital Adolf Meyer’s Psychobiology Clifford Beers and mental hygiene

Implications

Psychosocial perspectives have a long history in psychiatry

Implications Psychosocial perspectives have a long history in psychiatry Critical psychiatry has an explicitly ethical stance

Implications Psychosocial perspectives have a long history in psychiatry Critical psychiatry has an explicitly ethical stance The challenge of the user movement

Implications Psychosocial perspectives have a long history in psychiatry Critical psychiatry has an explicitly ethical stance The challenge of the user movement Meyer diverted Beer’s critique into the mental hygiene movement

Implications Psychosocial perspectives have a long history in psychiatry Critical psychiatry has an explicitly ethical stance The challenge of the user movement Meyer diverted Beer’s critique into the mental hygiene movement Anti-psychiatry had many of the same interests as other psychosocial perspectives