Liberty Aspect from Post-Psychiatric Psychiatrist in Liberation Mental Illness Patient from Detention in Total Institution

Authors

  • Chaiyaporn Ukosachan Student in Ph.D. Program in Social Policy. Faculty of Social Administration. Thammasat University

Keywords:

Post-Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Mental Illness Patient

Abstract

Prior to 1970, the psychiatric patient treatment in psychiatric hospitals or comprehensive institutions (to borrow Erving Goffman’s term), substantially influenced modern psychiatry. However, modern psychiatry was challenged by post-psychiatry, leading to a significant reform of psychiatry across Western Europe, the United States of America, and even former left-wing political countries. Such reforms liberated psychiatric patients from the dehumanizing psychiatric system. This article reveals that the freedom concept was not only expressed by Thomas Szasz, a well-known right-wing psychiatrist, and Michel Foucault, but also by the left-wing psychiatrists Franco Basaglia and R.D. Laing, Italian and Scottish, respectively, This means that right-wing liberalism is not the only concept influencing the current psychiatric concepts.

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2021-06-08

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Ukosachan, C. (2021). Liberty Aspect from Post-Psychiatric Psychiatrist in Liberation Mental Illness Patient from Detention in Total Institution. Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, 43(1), 218–231. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jasu/article/view/252076