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OBJECTIVE OF WEBSITE

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION:

This video demonstrates the forms of treatment mentally ill patients were receiving prior to the psychiatric survivor movement.

 

To the right we can see pictures of two posters that were distributed during the psychiatric survivor movement.

After spending a semester researching mental illnesses I was surprised to learn what its history revealed. Psychiatric treatments, procedures and tests given to mentally ill patients were conducted under ill-informed notions regarding mental health, and were often forced upon the patient regardless of wanting the treatment or not.  My research then led me to focus on psychiatric survivors, or ex-patients of psychiatric treatment who led a movement that fought for the liberation of the mentally ill and brought attention to the abuse medical professionals were inflicting on psychiatric patients. The objective of this website is to allow users to easily access information regarding the psychiatric survivor movement, while providing an overview of the movement using various forms of media. Users will be able to not only find links to primary source academic literature regarding the movement but also access newly constructed sources I have personally created, including an interactive map and timeline and audio file testimonies.
 

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