| Type of Document |
Dissertation |
| Author |
Morrison, Linda Joy
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| Author's Email Address |
lmorriso@oakland.edu |
| URN |
etd-04252003-204757 |
| Title |
Talking Back to Psychiatry: Resistant Identities in the Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-patient Movement |
| Degree |
Doctor of Philosophy |
| Program |
Sociology |
| School |
School of Arts and Sciences |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Kathleen M. Blee |
Committee Chair |
| John H. Marx |
Committee Member |
| Joseph S. Alter |
Committee Member |
| Mark B. Ginsburg |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- anti-psychiatry
- mental health consumer
- mental health advocacy
- psychiatric survivor
- social movements
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| Date of Defense |
2003-03-03 |
| Availability |
restricted |
Abstract
This research shows that activists in the consumer/survivor/ex-patient (c/s/x) movement develop a range of resistant identities in response to their encounters with psychiatry. Looking beyond the apparent distinction between “consumer” and “survivor,” components of a unifying survivor narrative are seen to underlie their resistance to assuming a totalized “mental patient” identity. A shared sense of injustice and betrayal of trust motivates people to identify with movement goals and values, which emphasize talking back to the power of psychiatry, rights protection and advocacy, and self-determination. Activists share a collective identity yet enact their concerns along a continuum from conservative to radical, according to their position in relation to psychiatric treatment and their relative levels of resistance and patienthood.
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