Anti-Psychiatric Approach to Mental Disorder
FINAL ESSAY:
“Evaluation of the anti-psychiatric approach to understanding mental disorder” Alberto del Río Aguilar
Index 1. The anti-psychiatric approach 1 a. Introduction 1 b. What is madness? 2 c. The emergence of a mental disease 3 d. Labelling diseases: the importance of the background 4 e. The problem of medicalization 6 f. The effect on the patients and their families 7
2. The results of the anti-psychiatric approach 8 a. The impact of the anti-psychiatric approach 8 b. Criticisms to anti-psychiatry 9
3. Conclusion 9
Bibliography 12
In an attempt to cover and resume all the main points in which psychiatry is criticised by this approach and evaluate it, I have decided to divide the essay in three parts. First, a description of the anti-psychiatric approach and the way in which the criticism are made; second, an evaluation of the impact of these attacks to psychiatry; finally, a closing conclusion summing up all the information and evaluating this perspective.
The first part tries to cover an objective description of the activity of the anti-psychiatric approach against psychiatry and its methods, talking about the way that madness is labelled and medicalized for example. In the second topic, the objective is to give an idea of the impact that all these ideas have had over the societies and a criticism that have been made to this approach. Finally, in the conclusion, there is a summing up of all the points that have been explained and a review and an evaluation of the anti-psychiatric approach and its consequences. 1. The anti-psychiatric approach a. Introduction
To evaluate the certainty and accuracy of the anti-psychiatric criticisms, we must have a clear idea of what anti-psychiatry means and the points where it attacks traditional psychiatry. The perfect
“Evaluation of the anti-psychiatric approach to understanding mental disorder” Alberto del Río Aguilar
Index 1. The anti-psychiatric approach 1 a. Introduction 1 b. What is madness? 2 c. The emergence of a mental disease 3 d. Labelling diseases: the importance of the background 4 e. The problem of medicalization 6 f. The effect on the patients and their families 7
2. The results of the anti-psychiatric approach 8 a. The impact of the anti-psychiatric approach 8 b. Criticisms to anti-psychiatry 9
3. Conclusion 9
Bibliography 12
In an attempt to cover and resume all the main points in which psychiatry is criticised by this approach and evaluate it, I have decided to divide the essay in three parts. First, a description of the anti-psychiatric approach and the way in which the criticism are made; second, an evaluation of the impact of these attacks to psychiatry; finally, a closing conclusion summing up all the information and evaluating this perspective.
The first part tries to cover an objective description of the activity of the anti-psychiatric approach against psychiatry and its methods, talking about the way that madness is labelled and medicalized for example. In the second topic, the objective is to give an idea of the impact that all these ideas have had over the societies and a criticism that have been made to this approach. Finally, in the conclusion, there is a summing up of all the points that have been explained and a review and an evaluation of the anti-psychiatric approach and its consequences. 1. The anti-psychiatric approach a. Introduction
To evaluate the certainty and accuracy of the anti-psychiatric criticisms, we must have a clear idea of what anti-psychiatry means and the points where it attacks traditional psychiatry. The perfect
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