Anti-psychiatry

Beginning in the 1960s, a movement called anti-psychiatry claimed that psychiatric patients do not necessarily have a 'mental illness', but in fact are individuals who do not ascribe to the same conventional belief system, or consensus reality, shared by most people in their particular culture. Adherents of this movement sometimes refer to "the myth of mental illness", after Dr. Thomas Szasz's controversial book, The Myth of Mental Illness.

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1960s - Psychiatric - Mental illness - Belief system - Consensus reality - Myth - Dr. Thomas Szasz's - Controversial book - The Myth of Mental Illness

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