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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