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antipsychiatry

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antipsychiatry [ˌæntɪsaɪˈkaɪətrɪ]
n
(Psychiatry) an approach to mental disorders that makes use of concepts derived from existentialism, psychoanalysis, and sociological theory
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Others, fueled by antipsychiatry venom, claim that the diagnosis is the marketing brainchild of greedy drug companies.
Commentary by Bell, Carl C. / Clinical Psychiatry News
47) Such crises found expression not only in militant political activism, but in the cult of violence; (48) the cult of the irrational, (49) the embrace of sexual adventurism, (50) experimentation with drugs, (51) and the valorisation of marginality and madness as desirable conditions, as exemplified by the enormous influence enjoyed by the antipsychiatry of R.
The origins of the radical intelligentsia in the 'Sixties by Bendle, Mervyn F. / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
Topics covered are history and origins of the field, including the work of specific psychiatrists; origins of psychoanalysis and psychopharmacology; the field between the two World Wars and during the Nazi regime, as well as after 1945; current scientific programs; child and adolescent psychiatry; and antipsychiatry.
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