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Beginning in the 1960's there was a movement called anti-psychiatry? that claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill and that they are just individuals that are misfit in society, and therefore put into asylums. Whilst there may have been some truth to this assessment with regards to mental illness in general, anthropological studies indicate that roughly equivalent percentages of people in a variety of cultures, some very different to modern Western culture, develop a disease recognised by that culture as such, with similar symptoms to schizophrenia, and subsequent medical examination of afflicted individuals show similar physical abnormalities as schizophrenics. (Some who are active in anti-psychiatry have not gone so far as to challenge the illness of psychiatric patients but merely challenged the practice of involuntary commitment from a legal or civil-liberties?perspective.)
Beginning in the 1960's there was a movement called anti-psychiatry? that claimed that psychiatric patients are not ill and that they are just individuals that are misfit in society, and therefore put into asylums. Whilst there may have been some truth to this assessment with regards to mental illness in general, anthropological studies indicate that roughly equivalent percentages of people in a variety of cultures, some very different to modern Western culture, develop a disease recognised by that culture as such, with similar symptoms to schizophrenia, and subsequent medical examination of afflicted individuals show similar physical abnormalities as schizophrenics. (Some who are active in anti-psychiatry have not gone so far as to challenge the illness of psychiatric patients but merely challenged the practice of involuntary commitment from a legal or civil-liberties? perspective.)
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