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2002
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Investigación en Salud
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Salud Canada social sciences Social movements mental health policy psychiatric desinstitutionalizationSujets proches
Mental health and state Mental health services--Government policy Mental health--Government policy State and mental healthCiter ce document
Louise Blais, « La psiquiatría comunitaria y los movimientos sociales: choque de dos mundos. », Investigación en Salud, ID : 10670/1.815l5m
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"In highly technocratic and professionalized societies, health policy and practices are driven by the widespread belief that "experts know best". This is especially the case of dominant contemporary psychiatry whose obsession for scientific legitimacy and "objectivity" is the obverse of the lack of credibility and human agency attributed to those on the receiving end of psychiatric services. This article examines how social movement theory can give depth and meaning to the collective actions of men and women with a psychiatric history and living in the context of de-institutionalization; how, also, it can help us understand the role of these actions in the "therapeutic process" as well as their creative potential in formulating "bottom-up" mental health policy and practices - a potential far from being adequately tapped, as this case-study of a Canadian experience attempts to show."