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Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is more often damaging than helpful to patients. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Wrongful involuntary commitment is an important issue in the movement. It has been active in various forms for two centuries.[1][2]Anti-psychiatry originates in an objection to what some view as dangerous treatments.[2]

Anti-psychiatry is a movement based on the view that psychiatric treatment is more often damaging than helpful to patients. It considers psychiatry a coercive instrument of oppression due to an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process. Wrongful involuntary commitment is an important issue in the movement. It has been active in various forms for two centuries.[1][2]Anti-psychiatry originates in an objection to what some view as dangerous treatments.[2]

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The basis for modern psychoanalysis is the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

Freud's work is based of the total of the 9 clients he had. He refused to take vacation, because he was concerned that without coming to see him, they would get well on their own.

Jung claimed all the knowledge he had came from a demon that came and talked to him at night.