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ToolsToms, Jonathan (2020) MIND, anti-psychiatry, and the case of the mental hygiene movement’s ‘discursive transformation’. Social History of Medicine, 33 (2). 622–640. ISSN 0951-631X
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Abstract
During the 1970s the National Association for Mental Health (NAMH) re-labelled itself MIND, becoming a rights-based organisation, critiquing psychiatry and emphasising patients’ citizenship. Its transformation has been coloured by attributions of the influence of anti-psychiatry. This article argues that the relevance of anti-psychiatry has been over-simplified. It examines MIND’s history as part of the psychiatric strategy known as mental hygiene. This movement’s agenda can be understood as paradigmatic of much that anti-psychiatry renounced. However, building on the sociologist Nick Crossley’s description of the interactional nature of Social Movement Organisations in the psychiatric field, this article shows that a ‘discursive transformation’ can be deduced in core elements of mental hygienist thinking. This transformation of discourse clearly prefigured important elements of anti-psychiatry, and also fed into MIND’s rights approach. But it must be appreciated on its own terms. Its distinctiveness under MIND is shown in its application to people with learning disabilities.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | anti-psychiatry,mind,mental hygiene,social movements,medicine (miscellaneous),history,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2701 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2018 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Oct 2025 18:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/69217 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/shm/hky096 |
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