Individualizing mental health responsibilities on Sina Weibo: a content analysis of depression framing by media organizations and mental health institutions
A review is made of the anti-psychiatric movement through its major protagonists, Lacan, Laing, Cooper and Szasz. The ideology was set to challenge the concept of mental illness and question the authority of the psychiatrist and the need for mental health institutions. The anti-psychiatric movement received a lot of attention in the 1970s but is now considered to be of the past and of likely interest to the psychiatric historian. However, the impact of the movement on current psychiatric practice requires further re-examination and appraisal.
Virtually no data are available on mental health institutions working on radicalization and terrorism. In the Netherlands we conducted a survey of all mental health institutions (n = 65) in 2016. Fifty-seven per cent responded. The result is that mental health institutions in the Netherlands have started to take small steps towards tacking radicalization and terrorism. These small steps, even by 2016, are a contrast to the reality of radicalization and terrorist incidents and attacks in the Netherlands since 2000. This outcome may have been caused by the resistance of Dutch psychiatrists in the mental health sector (often heard in the Greater Amsterdam region) to the idea that radicalisation and terrorist incidents and attacks are not their work either. For their view is, it is not our job if there is no DSM disorder.
Josephine Shaw Lowell (1843–1905) the first female member of the New York State Board of Charities, succeeded in providing more correctional facilities for women and mental health institutions. In 1891 she became the first president of the Consumers League.
Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802–1887) was a writer and pioneer in the mental health movement. She lobbied national and internationally on behalf of the deaf and insane and was responsible for the establishment of 32 public and private mental health institutions.
A joint infection control system is needed in mental health institutions during outbreaks of major respiratory infectious diseases