HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Wellness Recovery Action Plan, Mad Pride, Anti-Psychiatry
12 Apr 2016
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View that psychiatric treatments are oten more damaging than helpful. The ani-psychiatry has existed for quite some ime. Relaionships built upon coercion and power imbalance (i am the ixer you are paient) Psychiatric labelling has the potenial to destroy lives. Viewing raional responses to trauma/abuse/societal oppression as mental illness. Residents of hamilton would oten go on picnics on the residence grounds to watch the lunaics. Became a training residence program for nurses who wished to be involved in psychiatric care. Waghag boasts that it is one of the most famous haunted locaions in ontario. Mad or madness is a reclaimed term that is used to refer to certain ideniies, ways of knowing, culture and community and social movements. Mad pride movement unites people with shared experiences to ight oppressive, discriminatory and sanest treatment. Language is poliical but language is also individual. Medical professionals, mental health, psychiatry and social workers have a bad way of speaking about is.
