Anti-psychiatry movement

Question 1

Coined the term anti-psychiatry

Answer 1

David Cooper

Question 2

Psychological model of the antipsychiatry argument

Answer 2

Mental disorders are learned abnormalities of behaviour

Question 3

Labelling model of the antipsychiatry argument

Answer 3

The features of mental illnesses are actually any behaviours of individuals who have been labelled as ‘deviants’

Question 4

The hidden meaning model of the antipsychiatry argument

Answer 4

Apparently irrational behaviours that are labelled as symptoms are actually meaningful for the patient

Question 5

The unconscious mind model of antipsychiatry

Answer 5

Apparently irrational behaviours that are labelled as symptoms are products of an unconscious process and can be made understandable

Question 6

The political control model of the antipsychiatry argument

Answer 6

The idea that the medical model of insanity is a way to legitimise the control of those thought to be deviant, dangerous or undesirable

Question 7

Antipsychiatrist quoted as saying ‘Insanity need not always be a breakdown; it can also be a breakthrough’ and ‘insanity sometimes is the sane response to an insane society’

Answer 7

R D Laing

Question 8

Antipsychiatrist quoted as saying ‘If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia’.

Answer 8

Thomas Szasz

Question 9

Psychiatrist associated with the antipsychiatry movement who proposed the dismantling of psychiatric hospitals and influenced Law 180 which included directives to close down all psychiatric hospitals in Italy

Answer 9

Franco Basaglia

Question 10

Author of the study ‘On being sane in insane places’, where eight people pretended to be psychiatrically unwell to gain admission to a psychiatric ward, and then struggled to be discharged when they stopped pretending to be unwell

Answer 10

DL Rosenhan