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Mental Illness and Psychiatry: The 20th and Early 21st Centuries 
Paulann Grech1 & Reuben Grech1 

1 University of Malta, Malta 
Correspondence: Paulann Grech, University of Malta, Malta. E-mail: paulanngrech gmail.com 
 
Received: August 30, 2021; Accepted: September 27, 2021; Published: September 29, 2021 
 
Abstract  
The aim of this paper is to present the opposing views and tensions that characterised the evolution of psychiatry 
and understandings of mental health during the 20th century and the early decades of the 21st century. To this 
extent, the principal figures and entities that occupied the main fronts during these debates are presented during a 
description of the journey undertaken by psychiatry during the aforementioned years. Quotes from various original 
texts or their translations have been included in an attempt to recreate the spirit of the periods under study. This 
historical exploration provides further insight into the multifaceted world of mental health, its illnesses, treatments 
and the role of a number of influencing bodies that were crucial into shaping this discipline across the centuries.  
Keywords: critical psychiatry, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, twentieth century 
1. Introduction 
The status of mental illness during the Middle Ages and prior to the 18th century is one that triggered many 
questions and contemporary debates. Psychiatry has attempted to provide various explanations to that which had 
been perceived as mystical and bizarre. Finally, it resulted in the structuring of clinical categories and management 
pathways that dictate treatment and care. This paper is intended to trace the origins of mental illness and psychiatry 
with a focus on the concept of psychiatric diagnosis as it evolved during the 20th century and the early decades of 
the 21st century. It has been divided into two parts – the first part (i) is dedicated to a historical review of psychiatric 
diagnosis with particular emphasis on Kraepelinian dichotomy and the Neo-Kraepelinians. The second part (ii) is 
constituted by a critical discussion of opposing views and tensions in relation to the validity and benefit of a 
psychiatric diagnostic system – here reference is made to mainstream psychiatry as well as various movements 
such as anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry as well as the User Movement. 
i). A Brief History of Psychiatric Diagnosis 
Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamics and Kraepelinian Dichotomy 
The fundamental debate and the foundations of the psychiatric discipline are rooted in the quest to define and 
conceptualise mental illness in an attempt to erect clear boundaries between normality and madness. In his 
comprehensive work about the history of psychiatry, Shorter (1997) recounted how psychoanalytic and 
psychotherapuetic theories dominated the post-asylum era and the biological approaches that featured in the 19th 
century. For more than half a century, Freud’s ideas were at the forefront of explanations that tended to focus on 
social and non-biological explanations of symptoms related to mental illness. This approach centred around the 
contention that actions and thoughts are often controlled by forces that can only be explored through a process of 
psychoanalysis. Although the profound effect of Freud has seeped into today’s psychiatry, the major critique 
surrounding this school of thought is that Freud’s theories were simply his, because they could not be studied 
empirically and so lack scientific validity (Brace, 2006). 
Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, was one of the critics who shunned Freud’s psychoanalytic postulations, in 
favour of biological and pathological understandings of mental illnesses (Kraepelin & Diefendorf, 1902). In this 
way, he opted to consider mental illness as a state of predisposition to stressful events in life. This led him to 
contend that “so-called psychic causes – unhappy love, failure in business, overwork – are the product rather than 
the cause of the disease, that they are but the outward manifestation of a pre-existing condition” (Kraepelin, 1962, 
p.132). In addition to his studies about the use of psychiatric drugs for treatment of disorders related to the nervous 
system (pharmacopsychology), Kraepelin’s pioneer work lies in his classification of mental illness. The first form 
of a classification and diagnostic system - which ultimately led to the American Psychiatric Association (APA)’s 
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is still widely in use today (Hacking, 2013). This was fuelled by 
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years of observing patients and recording symptoms related to mental illness, Kraepelin introduced the innovative 
Kraepelinian dichotomy which initially constituted two main divisions: manic-depressive psychosis (nowadays 
termed bipolar disorder) and dementia praecox (later renamed as schizophrenia) (Kraepelin, 1962). 
In a critical appraisal of the history of psychiatry, Decker (2007) highlighted the events that took place during the 
1880 s and 1890 s, when Kraepelin slowly grouped symptoms and categorised them for publication in 
Compendium der Psychiatrie (Kraepelin, 1962). One of Krapelin’s main strengths was his prowess as a descriptive 
author, as seen by the colourful manner by which he described the symptoms.  
Although one of the main criticisms of Kraepelin’s work centres around observer bias and the validity of 
preconceived notions, one must note that Kraepelin was aware of the importance of experimental psychiatry and 
he had designed his own methods of testing mental reactions to various substances and external factors.  
Notably, Kraepelin advised that psychiatrists should refrain from focusing on the origins of illness and from 
postulating a diagnosis but should instead focus on the observation of the symptoms and description of the 
manifestations (Decker, 2007, p.340). This bears resemblance to one of the pillars of contemporary psychiatry - 
the Recovery Movement - which affords more consideration to addressing and describing symptoms rather than 
placing diagnosis at the hub of care (Roberts, 2011).  
Decker commented that Kraepelin’s view point seemed to change over time since in the fifth edition of his book 
Psychiatrie, he indulged in the aetiology of dementia praecox. A notable aspect about Kraepelin is that throughout 
the course of his life, he often reflected upon his work and even admitted that his proposed nosology was not 
definite and subject to scrutiny. In response to critique by Meyer, Kraepelin acknowledged a further shortcoming 
in that he did not review existing literature in order to substantiate his work. Following the second world war, 
Kraepelin´s approach waned in popularity in favour of environmental and psychological movements. In particular, 
psychologists were required in the treatment of shell shock especially in view of the fact that psychiatrists were 
short in supply (Reisman, 1991) and soon after, psychotherapy was added to the discipline (Routh, 2000). 
The Neo-Kraepelinians 
The psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thinking that dominated the scene in the 1940 s was characterised by a 
negative perception of psychiatric diagnosis in that it could be harmful to patients (Kendler, Munoz & Murphy, 
2009). For instance, Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock and Erbaugh (1962) reviewed systematic studies of the 
reliability of psychiatric diagnosis and reported an agreement of only 54 percent for specific diagnoses. Similarly, 
studies by Sandifer, Pettus & Quade (1964) and Schmidt & Fonda (1956) revealed agreement in just half of the 
cases between two independent opinions on diagnosis of a group of patients. Kendell (2004) narrated how during 
the same period, a group of psychiatrists at Washington University were preoccupied with the fact that the 
psychological approach that had gained popularity lacked a scientific base. In the 1960s and early 1970s, these 
psychiatrists, who became known as the neo-kraepelins expressed their dissatisfaction with a discipline that 
seemed to be unstructured, non-medical and non-scientific. Their preoccupation with these flaws led to an echo of 
Kraepelin’s fundamental belief that only an empirical, biologically-based evidence base can improve the outcomes 
for those who exhibited symptoms related to mental illness (Decker, 2007). Once again, a cautionary note against 
over-emphasis on aetiology was made due to the lack of knowledge about the origin and causation of most 
psychiatric disorders. 
The culmination of these hypotheses and assumptions led to a paper published in the Archives of General 
Psychiatry (Feighner, Robins, Guze, Woodruff, Winokur & Munoz, 1972). The paper outlined a review of 1000 
articles which formed the background of a proposal for new criteria for psychiatric disorders. The objective of 
such an extensive review was to present a diagnostic system that was based on evidence as opposed to “opinion 
or tradition” and described by the authors of the paper as “the most efficient currently available” (Feighner et al.). 
In agreement, Macalpine and Hunter (1974) stated that: 
The lesson of the history of psychiatry is that progress is inevitable and irrevocable from psychology to neurology, 
from mind to brain, never the other way round. Every medical advance adds to the list of diseases which may 
cause mental derangement. The abnormal mental state is not the disease, nor its essence or determinant but an 
epiphenomenon. This is why psychological theories and therapies, which held out such promise at the turn of the 
century when so much less was known of localisation of function in the brain, have added so little to the treatment 
understanding of mental illness despite all the effort devoted to them (p. 256). 
Furthermore, the new categorisation was fuelled by the follow up of case studies and rigorous observation of the 
course of psychiatric illness. This was a sharp contrast to the DSM-II which centred around psychoanalysis as well 
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Klerman (1978, pp.104-105) suggested nine tenets as the basis of the neo-Kraepelinian movement: 
- Psychiatry is a branch of medicine. 
- Psychiatry should utilize modern scientific methodologies and base its practice on scientific knowledge. 
- Psychiatry treats people who are sick and who require treatment. 
- There is a boundary between the normal and the sick. 
- There are discrete mental illnesses. They are not myths, and there are many of them. 
- The focus of psychiatric physicians should be on the biological aspects of illness. 
- There should be an explicit and intentional concern with diagnosis and classification. 
- Diagnostic criteria should be codified, and a legitimate and valued area of research should be to validate 

them. 
- Statistical techniques should be used to improve reliability and validity. 

As a result of this movement, the DSM-II was revised and its revolutionary sequel was produced as directed by 
the influential psychiatrist Robert Spitzer (Decker, 2007). The DSM system has paved the way for a modern 
diagnostic system and its use has spread widely in the field of psychiatry. However, subsequent publications were 
characterised by opposing views that challenge validity and reliability, especially in the most recent launch of the 
DSM V. In Kendler et al.’s words: “There is, we suggest, a healthy dialectical tension between nomothetic (law-
based) and ideographic (individual case) approaches to psychiatry and between scientific exp 
lanation and psychological understanding” (Kendler et al., 2009). 
This tension shall be explored in the next section as part of the critique of the concept of a psychiatric diagnostic 
system and its implications. 
ii). Diagnostic criticism: a matter of pseudo-science? 
Diagnostic criteria have indeed been the subject of controversy (Summerfield, 2008). Diverse perceptions have 
ranged from an exclusively clinical psychiatric model of diagnosis to theorists who posited that psychiatry and its 
alleged ability to diagnose disorders is simply a fabrication or a myth. 
The psychiatric model proposed by Spitzer and colleagues that has been described in the previous section has 
found some acceptance and the DSM series has now reached its fifth publication (APA, 2014). Similarly, the 
psychiatric diagnostic system proposed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as seen in the International 
Classification of Diseases (ICD) manual, is now in its eleventh edition. 
The psychiatric model that features in the DSM 5 and the ICD 11 continues to have both critics and advocates. 
One of the critics - Summerfield (2008) - discussed the significance of culture – a case in point being the South 
African ailment of thinking too much which has similar symptoms to depressive disorder but a different meaning 
in this particular culture. This led Summerfield (2008) to state that “Western psychological discourse is setting out 
to instruct, regulate, and modernise, presenting as definitive the contemporary Western way of being a person. It 
is unclear why this should be good for mental health in Africa or Asia” (p.993). 
In an exploration of some of the debates surrounding the medical model, Szasz (2010) described how diagnostic 
subjectivity, the boundaries of normality, coercion, conceptual disputes about the mind and brain, freedom and 
other human rights have generated the anti-psychiatry movement that saw its rise in the 1960 s. In their review of 
critical psychiatry, Bracken and Thomas (2010) explored how the contradictions and disagreements in psychiatry 
which gave rise to the anti-psychiatry movement during the 1960s and 1970s, still feature in the contemporary 
mental health field, having now progressed to a critical psychiatry perspective and most recently a postpsychiatry 
viewpoint. In a parallel fashion to this movement, groups of ex-patients have expressed their dissatisfaction with 
mainstream medicine by forming survivor groups. These are often characterised by a quasi-militant approach to 
the psychiatric discipline by a group of individuals who consider themselves as survivors of traumatic and 
oppressive medical practice (Wallcraft & Bryant, 2003). These movements and groups, as well as other prominent 
ones, shall be explored in further detail in this section. 
The aim of this section of the review is not that of indulging in a crusade against conventional psychiatry. Instead, 
some of the main debates and movements that characterise the mental health field shall be discussed and critiqued.  
2. The antipsychiatry movement 
Desai (2005) noted that despite the emphasis on regarding psychiatry as a branch of medicine, it is characterised 
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cardiology, for instance, is not plausible, whereas the area of anti-psychiatry is a well-defined movement that has 
a definite place in society. One may relate this to the historical Cinderella status of psychiatry. However, on further 
thought, such open hostility towards psychiatry, such as that expressed by Thomas Szasz, may well be led by the 
lack of tacit evidence regarding the practices of this discipline: 
This view rests on a serious, albeit simple, error: it rests on mistaking or confusing what is real with what is 
imitation; literal meaning with metaphorical meaning; medicine with morals. In other words, I maintain that mental 
illness is a metaphorical disease (Szasz, 2007, p.6). 
The works by Szasz and other prominent figures in the anti-psychiatry movement, such as R.D. Laing and David 
Cooper, shall be explored in further detail in a later part in this section of the review. 
In a series of papers dedicated to the evidence-base of psychiatry, critical psychiatrists Bracken and Thomas (1999) 
scrutinised the medical model that has been prominent in unearthing the aetiology of a number of psychological 
disturbances. The authors postulated that an error may have been made when the medical model was extensively 
applied to all forms of psychological disturbances in a quest to prove that these symptoms were part of a specific 
mental illness that had a physical basis and could be treated likewise. In their publications, Bracken and Thomas 
mentioned schizophrenia as a typical example and labelled it as the raison d’être of psychiatry – a disorder that 
has been researched and stripped of human experience in order to form a biomedical picture. They also reasoned 
that although neuroscientific advances may fill the evidence gap, accurate and practical diagnostic tests are still 
fantasies that have yet to be actualised. Hence diagnosis is still mainly reliant on professional observation making 
it susceptible to subjective bias and political influence. Bracken and Thomas (1999) identified the power imbalance 
that the medical model creates within the therapeutic alliance and stated that there is a need for “a fundamental 
shift in the power relationship between doctor and patient. Psychiatry has to hand over responsibility for psychosis 
to those who experience psychosis. Those who experience psychosis must be prepared to accept that responsibility” 
(para. 4). 
In one of his works about learning difficulties and society, Goodley (2001) expressed similar misgivings about the 
notion of power that characterises the Social Model of Disability and Impairment. He contended that “society 
creates disablement and is the arbiter of disciplinary powers that (re)produce pathological understandings of 
different bodies and minds” (p.210). In the same paper, Goodley (2001) elaborated on support interventions found 
within a continuum of deficit at one end and capacity at the other end. This views individuals with learning 
difficulties in terms of levels of competence/ incompetence and of a model based on pathology, problems and 
incapability. 
The anti-psychiatry movement, which began to form in the 1960s, mirrored this observation and raised several 
questions pertaining to the perceived robustness of the newly constructed psychiatric discipline (Desai, 2005). 
Prior to delving deeper into the diagnostic challenge, the history of the anti-psychiatry movement is going to be 
explored with focus on the main phases and viewpoints that characterise this movement. 
Desai (2005) described how the first of the major steps in the anti-psychiatry direction was taken by a science 
fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard, who, in 1950, founded the Church of Scientology (p.185). In 1969, the Citizens 
Commission of Human Rights (CCHR) was founded by scientology in an attempt to unveil the perceived evils 
practiced by psychiatry: “to expose and eradicate the brutalization of patients in the name of ‘mental health’. Over 
the years, the Citizens Commission has investigated and exposed thousands upon thousands of cases of psychiatric 
negligence, abuse and brutality” (Scientology.org, 2014). 
Hubbard’s preoccupation with what he clearly perceived as being barbaric practice was communicated through a 
number of his publications. He believed that psychiatry is a worldwide conspiracy run by the Union of Soviet 
Socialists Republic (USSR). A critical point regarding these assumptions follows the power issues that seem to lie 
behind such claims. It is felt that while Hubbard’s attack on psychiatry’s lack of consideration for the spiritual 
aspect may be well placed, whether scientological practices have a positive outcome on the course of mental 
illnesses has yet to be proven. Cases such as the notorious one of Lisa McPherson who was brought dead to hospital 
following introspection rundown – a scientological spiritual technique that attempts to treat florid psychosis, fuels 
doubt in this regard (Kendell et al., 2004). 
The second wave of the antipsychiatry movement saw the involvement of professionals such as psychiatrists and 
sociologists who questioned the basis of psychiatric diagnosis and treatment as well as the coercive authority 
linked to it (Desai, 2005). Adolf Meyer had been one of the earliest 20th century leading figures who opposed the 
use of diagnostic criteria as a primary and sole means of diagnosing mental illness. Contrasting with similar 
movements that challenged conventional psychiatry, Meyer did not distinguish between mental disturbances that 
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Echoing the views of other radicalists such as Szasz (1974), Meyer (1952) endeavoured to explain schizophrenia 
in terms of maladaptation to life experiences and an unhealthy lifestyle: “living in ways which put their mind and 
the entire organism and its activity in jeopardy” (p.4). 
One of Meyer’s concerns was that psychiatric practice lacked scientific evidence (Meyer, 1952). In order to 
partially address this issue, he postulated reaction-type systems that served the purpose of a structured analysis of 
abnormal responses and remarked that psychiatry should be more organised and disciplined. He proposed a 
classification system that was “a wide range of facts usually left to untrained common-sense, but now available as 
a more and more organised body of facts, methods of study and methods of therapeutic procedure” (Meyer, 1952, 
III, 44). Meyer’s scepticism regarding any diagnostic system as complete or as a steadfast rule featured in his 
works - he even described his own system as not being “sufficiently settled for practical purposes” (vol. II, p.136).  
The base of Meyer’s contention, which is one of today’s debates in psychiatry, holds that the medical model 
focuses too much on bodily parts, namely the brain, and is generally reluctant to seek connections to the lived 
experience of the individual. Meyer (1952) shunned the over-inflated importance of statistical research techniques 
and emphasised that a higher level of insight can be obtained through person research. An interesting point that 
was specifically argued by Meyer (1952) was that the primary aim of the psychiatrist needs to be that of collecting 
the facts and not to produce a diagnosis: “If the facts do not constitute a diagnosis we must nevertheless act on the 
facts” (II, 146). He cautioned against the obsession with making a diagnosis that is often aimed to satisfy the 
psychiatrist’s craving for tying up the symptoms in a neatly organised parcel that is linked to a ready-made 
treatment package (Meyer, 1952).  
In view of approaches such as that articulated by Meyer, the act of diagnosing may be understood in terms of the 
application of a label, leading to an erosion of an individual’s identity and medicalisation of symptoms which may 
be caused by non-pathological factors. Yet this voice has been subjected to counterarguments by a number of 
service users who, through the adoption of a biological model, have found great relief in being offered a medical 
reason (a diagnosis) for their symptoms (Huibers & Wessely, 2006). Despite the stigma and sick role attributed to 
such diagnoses, the act of having an explanation and a validation of symptoms is akin to other medical disorders 
and in itself, this has been a source of comfort for these individuals (Fulford, Broome, Stanghellini & Thornton, 
2005). For instance, in an article about the consequences of diagnosis, Heitler (2012), who is a clinical psychologist, 
described how one of her patients who used to be irritated by her feelings of anxiety gained more control over 
these symptoms by becoming aware of the clinical label of the state of anxiety: “By clinically labelling her feeling 
anxiety, she was able to use her new knowledge of what to do in the face of specific emotions” (para.20). 
This argument is also exemplified by the book An Unquiet Mind - a compelling memoir by Kay Jamison (1995) 
who described her life as characterised by bipolar disorder. Jamison clearly portrayed her acceptance of her 
symptoms as situated in understandings pertaining to genetics, pathology and medical imaging results. For her, 
the origins are solid, organic and based on scientific evidence. This has allowed her to seek the necessary treatment 
and progress with her life – a successful life characterised by multiple research endeavours and a professor post at 
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Jamison, 1995). 
Although criticisms of the theory and practice of psychiatry such as those expressed by Meyer have been evident 
throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, it was the South African psychoanalyst David Cooper who 
introduced the term anti-psychiatry. He stated how “a more profound questioning has led some of us to propose 
conceptions and procedures that seem quite antithetic to the conventional ones – in fact what may be regarded as 
a germinal anti-psychiatry” (Cooper, 1967, p.ix). 
In a similar manner to Meyer, Cooper favoured a psychosocial approach to the origin of mental illness and 
attributed disorders to a dysfunctional family system. He argued that in the family, permissible behaviour is 
regulated through complex double-binds – this is a type of political control of the members. An interesting tangent 
raised by Cooper involves his view that madness is in fact a process of restructuring. He argued that if this process 
is not interfered with, the person can emerge from the experience with gains above his pre-morbid level of 
functioning: “Madness is a permanent revolution in the life of a person...a deconstitution of oneself with the 
implicit promise of return to a more fully realized world” (Cooper, 1967, pp.37,51).  
Cooper’s views seemed to echo in two simultaneous attacks on conventional psychiatry, as presented by 
psychoanalyst R.D. Laing and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Huddleston (2006) described how Laing’s work featured 
in 1960 when following his medical training with the army, he began to doubt the use of placing psychiatric 
patients in deep insulin comas as well as the use of electroconvulsive therapy. It was instantly clear that his position 
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If the human race survives, future men will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a veritable age of 
Darkness. They will presumably be able to savor the irony of the situation with more amusement than we can 
extract from it. They will laugh on us. They will see that what we call 'schizophrenia' was one of the forms in 
which, often through quite ordinary people, the light began to break through the cracks in our all-too-closed minds 
(Laing, 1967, p.107). 
He also ventured into comparing determinism to the more beneficial approaches of subjectivity and freedom and 
emphasised that cure can only happen when the individual is left free to choose. Laing’s first book, namely: The 
Divided Self involved case studies that were used to challenge the notion of schizophrenia. In doing so, Laing 
(1960) revolutionised the way that mental illness is perceived and interpreted, particularly by arguing that 
psychosis is not a biological ailment but a normal reaction in the face of ontological insecurity. The latter term 
refers to insecurities related to one’s existence and to an individual who is not able to “take the realness, aliveness, 
autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted" and who then embarks on a mission to avoid “losing his 
self” (Laing, 1960, pp.41-3). Laing structured this contention on the theory that our existence in the world is 
defined by mental models carried by ourselves about those around us. He theorised that psychosis arises when 
there is tension between our private inward persona and the model that we present to the world, which leads to a 
division of the self, as a defence mechanism. This split is characterised by the classical symptoms of schizophrenia. 
Using his case studies and sociograms as evidence, Laing discovered that the bizarre and inexplicable symptoms 
exhibited by patients often make sense when they are viewed against the backdrop from which they emerge.  
Applying the concept of The Double Bind Theory by Bateson, Jackson, Haley and Weakland (1956), Laing (1960) 
elaborated on the fact that in malfunctioning family systems, a child can find themselves in a situation where, in 
order to enjoy parental affection and approval, they have to comply to a self-identity that has been constructed by 
their parents (p.191). This is usually different from how the child internally experiences themselves to be, which 
results in a dilemma and a potential psychotic response. 
In his later work Sanity, Madness and the Family, Laing and Esterson (1964) explored how individuals interact 
and how this may relate to schizophrenia. Essentially, this described the notion of schizophrenogenic families and 
included sharp criticism on the way in which institutions such as schools oppress individuals by attempting to 
mould their thoughts and feelings in a way that is dictated and accepted by society. In Self and Others, Laing (1961) 
discussed the terms “phantasy” and “unconscious experience” which refer to the latent, internal authentic lived 
experience which cannot be observed by others but can only be inferred through discussion: 
I think of me being inside my body and at the same time the inside of my body being somehow ‘inside’ my private 
space. If someone comes into my room unasked he does not intrude upon me to the same extent as if he were to 
enter my body without permission. However since I am inside my body, my body is also outside me in some 
peculiar sense (p.18). 
The determination to challenge the validity and reliability of psychiatry was shared by psychologist and lawyer 
D.L. Rosenhan, whose 1973 sensational article, published in the prestigious journal Science was cited and quoted 
in debates that followed. This article - On Being Sane in Insane Places - was intended to indicate that American 
psychiatrists did not have scientific diagnostic standards and that an individual’s stay in a psychiatric hospital was 
an irrational experience. These views had been tested by a fascinating observational study carried out by the 
researcher in order to demonstrate that false diagnosis is a very real possibility in psychiatric settings.  
The study featured Rosenhan and seven other ‘normal’ people who went to different psychiatric hospitals on an 
individual basis in order to attempt to be admitted. The reason that they gave for their admission request was that 
they were hearing voices that said “empty”, “hollow”, and “thud” (Rosenhan, 1973). These invented symptoms 
were ones that had never featured in psychiatric diagnosis, yet, in each case, the “pseudopatients” were falsely 
diagnosed as suffering from a psychiatric disorder which merited admission (Rosenhan, 1973, p.383). As soon as 
the pseudopatients were admitted, they started to behave ‘normally’ and did not report any further symptoms. The 
task that each individual had was to try to convince the staff that s/he had recovered and so could be discharged. 
The striking results showed that even though the pseudopatients had been admitted on a voluntary basis and were 
behaving in a perfectly normal manner, Rosenhan and his collaborators were admitted for an average of 19 days 
(Rosenhan, 1973). In one case, the admission period was nearly two months. Furthermore, upon discharge, the 12 
individuals were labelled as “schizophrenia in remission” and this was entered into their permanent medical record. 
Thus, they were never certified as having truly regained their sanity (Rosenhan, 1973). Interestingly, Rosenhan 
asked the study participants to take field notes about their interactions with staff members and it was instantly 
noted that the professionals attempted to “depersonalize” patients and avoid significant interactions with them. For 
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members to ask questions. It could be noted that an alarmingly high number of professionals refused to make eye 
contact when approached or spoken to (Rosenhan, 1973). Rosenhan’s critics outlined various limitations related 
to the ethical and methodological rigour in the study such as, for instance, Rosenhan’s possible inclination to 
inflate the negative aspects of the participants’ experiences inside the psychiatric hospital.  
Simultaneously, Szasz started to harshly question the existence of mental illness in relation to its comparison to 
medical disorders. Szasz (2007) argued that the main difference between medicine and psychiatry can be explained 
by the fact that in generic medicine, disorders were discovered whereas it seemed that in psychiatry, they were 
simply invented (p.xv). This made them “counterfeit diseases” and “non-diseases”: “If you talk to God, you are 
praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia” (Szasz, 1973, p.101). He hypothesised that these myths were 
perpetuated by the state and by psychiatrists’ wish to safeguard their profession and preserve their power and 
control: “the state is primarily an apparatus of coercion with a monopoly of the legitimate use of violence” (Szasz, 
2007, p.151). 
Szasz’s example can be taken to a further level by noting that one of the concepts in psychiatry is that of insight - 
this refers to a person’s ability, or lack of, to recognise that s/he is suffering from a mental illness (Markova & 
Berrios, 1992). It may not be inaccurate to note that this does point towards a situation where a person’s failure to 
comply with mainstream psychiatric ideas may be at risk of simply being written off as lack of insight. On 
exploring the concept of insight in relation to recovery, Timimi (2012) noted that “paradoxically, it has been found 
that the presence of this type of “insight” (meaning accepting you are mentally ill and need medical treatment) is 
negatively correlated with emotional well-being, economic satisfaction and vocational status” (sec. Prognosis). 
Szasz’s description of the notion that modern psychiatric experts invent diseases does not seem too far-fetched in 
view of the ever-expanding, seamless boundaries of the current systems of classification. This argument was one 
of many that were introduced by Frances (2009) in his criticism of the DSM 5. In what has been widely considered 
as one of the best arguments against conventional psychiatric practice, Szasz’s book: The Myth of Mental Illness 
shunned the generally accepted view that mental illness is like any other bodily illness and medical speciality 
(Szasz, 1974). The author’s critique revolved around the fact that symptoms attributed to mental illness are simply 
imitations due to the fact that if an ailment has to be classified as a true disease, then it has to be considered with 
and compared to the rest of medical practice (Szasz, 1974). This refers to measurement and testing in a scientific 
fashion as well as pathological demonstration at the cellular or molecular level. This is a vivid contrast to how 
mental illnesses had been historically voted into existence by agreement amongst members of the APA – and the 
subsequent shaping of diagnostic labelling: 
Every science consists of classification, control, and prediction; hence to prove psychiatry is a science, the 
psychiatrist classifies, controls, predicts. The result is that he classifies people as mad; that he confines them as 
dangerous (to themselves or others); and that he predicts people's behaviour, robbing them of their free will and 
hence of their very humanity (Szasz, 1973, p. 115). 
Szasz (1960) contended that although the manifestation of mental disturbances may resemble pathological diseases, 
they are simply but wholly, problems in living and in morality: “Our adversaries are not demons, witches, fate, or 
mental illness. We have no enemy whom we can fight, exorcise, or dispel by ‘cure’. What we do have are problems 
in living — whether these be biologic, economic, political, or sociopsychological” (p.115).  
Another area that held the focus of Szasz’s criticism was involuntary mental hospitalisation. In a 2006 documentary 
film called Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, Szasz emphasised that involuntary mental hospitalization is a crime 
against humanity which can easily result in “pharmacratic” dictatorship (CCHR, 2005). This view shares a number 
of similarities to Foucault’s critique of the penalty system and the self-regulation process induced by constant 
supervision. Foucault’s works shall be explored in further detail later in this section but as a final note, it has to be 
added that Szasz’s views also resemble Foucault’s in the sociological origin of mental illness. For instance, Szasz 
(1970) discussed how “in the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients” (p.xxiv). Similarly, in 
Madness and Civilisation, Foucault (1961/2013) noted that: 
Leprosy disappeared, the leper vanished, or almost, from memory; these structures remained. Often, in these same 
places, the formulas of exclusion would be repeated, strangely similar two or three centuries later. Poor vagabonds, 
criminals, and "deranged minds" would take the part played by the leper (p.5). 
It has to be noted that, as described in an article by Buchanan-Parker and Barker (2009), Szasz has often been 
misinterpreted. In fact, he has been frequently wrongly associated with the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s 
and 1970s. Szasz (2009) himself pointed out that he is only opposed to the practice of coercive psychiatry – on the 
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the state. Moreover, in his book Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared, he criticised the anti-psychiatry movement 
and regarded it as an imitation of psychiatry: 
Antipsychiatrists imitated psychiatrists by means of a childish negativism: they constructed antitheories of 
schizophrenia, which they called ‘existential-phenomenological accounts of madness’, established anti-hospitals, 
which they called ‘households’ and defined as ‘ideal psychiatric communities’ and provided psychiatric treatment 
which they called ‘trips’, that often entailed the use of mind-altering (psychotropic) drugs (Szasz, 2009, p.4). 
As discussed by Bracken and Thomas (2010), one of the outstanding characteristics of Szasz’s writing is its clarity 
- this serves to add coherence and consistency to his analysis and his attempt to demystify psychiatric diagnostic 
labelling. On the other hand, his form of thinking has been criticised as being too rigid and that it may have been 
misinterpreted as being an attack on the concept of mental illness (Double 2010). Furthermore, Double (2010) 
contended that one should be careful when making such harsh statements against psychiatry because mental health 
services are still needed and specific diagnoses may help to address and alleviate one’s suffering through giving 
meaning to a group of symptoms. He added that the problem arises when diagnostic categories are simply regarded 
as biomedical concepts that omit the psychological and social aspects during assessment and care planning. 
Echoing Szasz’s critics, it has to be noted that whereas some of the earlier DSM versions simply involved a 
committee’s consensus on voting psychiatric disorders into existence, the APA (2013) described how nowadays 
such illnesses are tested in a scientific manner that is supposedly more rigorous. Still, it seems as if this scientific 
method itself may not be appropriate, as articulated in the response given by the Society for Humanistic 
Psychology to the publication of the DSM 5. The society’s view is that the proposed diagnostic criterion is largely 
based on social norms and on subjective judgments: 
The putative diagnoses presented in DSM-V are clearly based largely on social norms, with ‘symptoms’ that all 
rely on subjective judgments, with little confirmatory physical ‘signs’ or evidence of biological causation. The 
criteria are not value-free, but rather reflect current normative social expectations (Society for Humanistic 
Psychology, 2014, Divison 32, sec.9). 
This enhances the risk of medicalising responses that are based on normal variations rather than pathology – these 
responses may require help but not necessarily psychiatric help: 
Clients and the general public are negatively affected by the continued and continuous medicalization of their 
natural and normal responses to their experiences; responses which undoubtedly have distressing consequences 
which demand helping responses, but which do not reflect illnesses so much as normal individual variation 
(Society for Humanistic Psychology, 2012, Divison 32, sec.9). 
The constitution of evidence that serves as the base of psychiatric knowledge shall be explored in further detail in 
a later part of this section. In a counterargument that advocates the medical model, it has to be noted that the history 
of generic illnesses resembles that of mental illnesses due to the fact that before aetiology and treatment were 
understood, management was generally ineffective. This implies that psychiatric disorders are part of a field that 
is still evolving and so it may be more accurate to consider them as misunderstood rather than as non-existent. 
However opposing arguments hold that the problem is much more serious and related to deep cracks in the facade 
of modern psychiatry (Angell, 2011). 
Desai (2005) described how the third major antipsychiatry force originated from England in the 1970s. This was 
led by the Mental Patients Union which consisted of those who called themselves survivors of psychiatry. The 
union was also influential within a larger movement, namely the World Network of Users and Survivors of 
Psychiatry. In a similar manner to their predecessors, activists sought to deny the existence of mental illness and 
the cold and clinical manner of psychiatric practice. Irwin, Mitchell, Durkin and Douieb (2011) published a rare 
cope of The Fish Pamphlet which may have been the starting point of the British Survivor Movement in 1974: 
Psychiatry is one of the most subtle methods of repression in advanced capitalist society. Because of this subtlety, 
few recognise the dangers shrouded by the mystification of ‘modern medicine’. The psychiatrist has become the 
High Priest of technological society, exorcising the ̀ devils' of social distress, by leucotomy (butchery of the brain), 
electric shock treatment - ECT (plugging brains into mains), and heavy use of mind-controlling drugs. The mental 
patient is a sacrifice we make whilst we continue to serve the Gods of the Capitalist Religion (p.23). 
Noorani (2013) explained how the movement was particularly successful in improving the nature of psychiatry by 
bridging the gap between service providers and service users. This shall be explored in more detail in the following 
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3. The User Movement 
Notably, many critical service user/ survivor movement groups have emerged as a result of the antipsychiatry 
move (Wallcraft, Reed & Sweeney, 2003). Examples of these groups include Survivors Speak Out, Mad Pride, 
Mad Women, National Self Harm Network and the Hearing Voices Network. The main objectives of these groups 
is advocacy and to provide a consultancy service to mainstream mental health services. Additionally, they favour 
a political stance whereas professionals in areas of health care are urged to relinquish paternalistic manners of 
addressing mental illness and instead focus on sharing knowledge and power with those who seek their service 
(Noorani, 2013). The magazine Asylum serves as an exhibition of works that echo the main tenets of the user 
movement: 
A consultant once said to me that he wanted to increase my medication. I asked him to state his reasons: Was it to 
iron out or flatten highs and lows in my thoughts, because I could get quite manic? The doctor said that was not 
the case, and that was paranoia on my part. I replied that the reason I had said that was not because I knew it to be 
true, but that I was just speculating, to see if the doctor would agree or disagree, or offer another reason. In effect, 
it was playing with words or indulging in a mild form of trickery, so as to harmlessly get some information. It was 
interesting to see how quickly the doctor jumped to the wrong conclusion, due to the psychiatrists’ mindset towards 
their patients. I then explained what I was doing by asking him that, and the doctor laughed, especially when I 
pointed out that he may be the one suffering from paranoia. Of course I was joking. How many patients are 
misdiagnosed and on the wrong amounts of medication because of misunderstandings between them and their 
doctors? Many, I would suggest. And how many are labelled paranoid when they can’t express themselves as I 
did? Once again, many (Anonymous user in a medium-secure unit, 2011, p.9). 
In 2003, a report named On Our Own Terms which was based on research carried out by the English service 
user/survivor movement was published (Wallcraft, et al., 2003). This publication consisted of a detailed survey on 
the consistency, operating procedures and future plans of the multiple groups within the movement. A number of 
findings outlined the important activities that were being undertaken by groups within the movement. For instance, 
education and training were popular activities within groups: 
We are going to be doing some work around relapse prevention, not a term I particularly like, a piece of jargon. 
It’s a model from the States, it’s much more a social model which treats people as individuals. People have their 
own plan that they go through training to develop, so it’s very much around self-management and taking 
responsibility yourself for your own signs of distress and what you do about them. The person is at the centre of 
it, but it includes services as well as individual things and people’s own strategies as well. They will go on to train 
professionals in using it so it moves up from there (Wallcraft et al., 2003, p.16). 
The experience of being a member of this movement was explored by Knight and Kierans (2011) who carried out 
a narrative inquiry with five members of user movement groups in order to elicit the rationale and the meaning of 
participation. Interestingly enough, being part of a service user movement group was perceived as creating a sense 
of community and solidarity due to the experience of engaging with people who have had similar experiences: 
And I got on there...everybody had the same feelings as me ... ‘this is wrong, we’ve not been treated properly’, 
and for me that was so empowering because it was like a whole online community that was together and so there 
was this sense of community (Knight & Kierans, 2011, slide 6).  
On an individual basis, it had an additional empowering effect whereby some of the members who were 
interviewed reported that due to their participation, they became aware that they wanted to move out of feeling 
like a “user”, which is connoted to disenabling implications: 
Do I stay ‘user’ or this person down here, or do I make major changes, and start looking at this process of stopping 
being this disabled, disenabled person…and I just went for it, and became self-employed (Knight & Kierans, 2011, 
slide 9).  
This consequently led to another beneficial outcome which was that of helping others in the same situation. 
Another reason was the pride experienced by being a change agent within a mental health system that was 
perceived as being harmful and ineffective: 
It has been a vital part of my recovery and it’s been a vital part of feeling something, a purpose in life, there is a 
purpose in my life beyond my immediate family and everything, that there’s, I am actually doing something useful, 
that really is very, very important (Knight & Kierans, 2011, slide 14).  
One criticism of survivor movement groups has been based on the observation that despite their value in giving a 
voice to the person who is experiencing mental difficulties, there may be a lack of representation. This is due to 
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relation to their mental health as well as to the services that they sought (Wallcraft et al., 2003). Anger seems to 
be a common catalyst within group members. Furthermore, it has to be acknowledged that other factors such as 
gender, age, sexuality and culture contribute directly to the experience of mental illness and these need to be 
adequately represented in the movement groups. 
Critical psychiatry and post psychiatry 
Alongside the emergence of the user movement, contemporary interpretations of the experience of mental illness 
have carved a competing niche to the biomedical model which has held prominence for countless years. These 
emerging viewpoints ranged from the logical and humane to that which is somewhat bizarre and perhaps even 
risky. As an example, one particular explanation of mental illness by the American psychologist Louis A. Sass, 
may be seen as being particularly intriguing and somewhat different from the biological and sociological 
explanations that have been explored so far in this review. In his book Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the 
Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought, Sass (1992) elaborated on why schizophrenia remains a mysterious 
condition. Primarily, Sass (1992) argued that madness results due to “confrontation”. This confrontation entails a 
human’s realisation that his existence is a framework that facilitates interpretation of the world. In usual 
circumstances, the individual is not consciously aware of this phenomenon or of the fact that reality is constantly 
being constructed in a particular manner. A state of hypersensitivity and hyperalertness, often seen in a psychotic 
state, may be symptomatic of this “confrontation”. In this sense, it is erroneous to view “madness” as a deficit state 
because it is in fact a state of “hyper-realisation” (Sass 1992). 
Interestingly, Sass (1992) pointed out that madness, specifically psychosis, bears a striking resemblance to art, 
whereas many modern artists and writers seem to be expressing very similar preoccupations as individuals who 
are understood as being mad. Sass progressed to list these preoccupations - these include an exploration of reality 
and relativism, defiance of authority, fragmentation and a total loss of self – often exhibited in the art and literature 
by artists such as Franz Kafka, Paul Valery, Samuel Beckett, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Giorgio de Chirico and Salvador 
Dali. Through the use of a phenomenological approach to explore the cognitive similarities between illness and 
genius, Sass (1992) referred to the tendency of both to deconstruct reality and human experience and so in a parallel 
manner, both states involve being in a hyper-reflexive state and a sense of alienation from the world. 
In what feels like a sequel to this book, in The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the 
Schizophrenic Mind, Sass (1994) presented an unorthodox view of the inside of the schizophrenic mind by 
comparing Daniel Schreber (a jurist who spent 13 years in asylums due to mental illness) and Ludwig Wittgenstein 
(a central philosopher in twentieth century thought). Sass (1994) contradicted the conventional view of 
schizophrenia as a disease and pictured it as another means of viewing reality rather than as a treatable or 
suppressible condition: 
The standard conceptions, whether psychoanalytic or psychiatric have nearly always presupposed the Western’s 
enduring equation of sanity with reason, insanity with passion and error – as if madness were necessarily a kind 
of stupidity or dementia, or in terms of Plato’s famous metaphor, a case of the wild horse of instinct overwhelming 
the charioteer’s conscious control (p.10). 
Instead of interpreting the symptoms of schizophrenia through a biomedical lens, Sass (1994) opted for a 
philosophical approach that analyses subjective and objective realities as well as how we judge these reality types. 
Reflecting on Sass’ work, Bracken and Thomas (1999) asserted that this is a serious contention since in psychiatry, 
schizophrenia is considered a dogma and questioning its existence as an illness has the potential to shake the very 
foundations of this discipline. In a typical postmodernist view, these same authors pointed out that one has to be 
cautious when proposing the denial of the existence of psychosis or when picturing it as a wonderful experience 
of self-discovery. This is due to the fact that reality has shown that oftentimes, it is an extremely distressing and 
debilitating condition. However, medicine should refrain from promoting psychiatric understandings and medical 
treatment as absolute and ideal solutions since these tend to de-humanise the experience: 
Unlike the antipsychiatrists, we do not deny the existence of psychosis, nor do we seek to romanticise it as a 
journey of self-discovery. For most people psychosis is a terrifying, perplexing experience. But the medical model 
has failed in its task to account for psychosis, and in doing so it has wrenched the ownership of the experience 
from the sufferers, denying them their own attempts to make sense out of the experience (Bracken & Thomas, 
1999, para. 3). 
Figures such as Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas are the main protagonists in critical psychiatry and 
postpsychiatry. Other leading figures are Joanna Moncrieff, Duncan Double, Sami Timimi and Bradley Lewis 
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A number of authors who are linked to the critical and post psychiatry period have been clear in their critical 
explanations about what constitutes the recent progress in psychiatry (Bracken & Thomas, 2001). In fact, most of 
this progress is mainly related to the development of new drugs, neuroscience, molecular genetics and Cognitive 
Behavioural Therapy (CBT). The main concern here is that the components of this progress are based on 
assumptions that may or may not be accurate. Whilst a number of diagnostic endeavours and treatment approaches 
are a direct branch of the medical model, other therapies such as CBT are still rigidly rooted in beliefs about the 
nature of self, the environment and the construction of reality (House & Loewenthal, 2008). 
At times, it is quite clear that unlike antipsychiatry, critical and postpsychiatry are not a blatant attack on anything 
related to medicine and conventional psychiatry (Lewis, 2006). Alternatively, the main philosophy shifts towards 
respecting human autonomy and the right for choice and freedom - it is not to say that mainstream psychiatric 
services are not useful, desirable and effective in some cases. However, it is about the need to widen the horizon 
and partake a humble approach by realising that for the time being, diagnostic labelling and the explanation as 
well as the treatment options that it provides, are simple hypothesis and not facts; it is one way of looking at reality 
or rather, one way of describing reality. Thus, assuming that it is the only way or the best description of reality 
would be subject to error (Bracken & Thomas, 2001). Having its philosophical roots in a postmodernist approach, 
critical and postpsychiatry encompass a more holistic way of addressing madness and distress. The main ideas are 
drawn from philosophers such as Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Wittgenstein and Heidegger. 
Despite their common goal that psychiatry needs to be practiced without the underpinning foundation in terms of 
brain pathology, postpsychiatry and critical psychiatry differ in a number of ways. In brief, the main difference 
lies in that critical psychiatry is mostly concerned with the politics and ethics of psychiatry as well as encompassing 
a number of philosophical positions (Thomas, 2013). In contrast, in his book Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and 
the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry, Lewis (2006) described how postpsychiatry is more focussed on 
postmodernism and concerned with the modernist’s tendency to look for technical solutions to address life’s 
problems. According to postpsychiatry advocates, progress can be achieved by engaging with the service users in 
a creative manner rather than by imposing psychiatric rules on those who we call patients: “Contemporary 
psychiatry tends to focus on neurochemical and genetic explanations, to place technological solutions over ethical 
and human considerations, and to use forced treatment methods to resolve clinical controversy. By contrast, 
postpsychiatry works to counter these trends” (Lewis, 2006, p.x). 
Some of the advocates of critical and postpsychiatry such as Phil Thomas, Patrick Bracken, Duncan Double and 
Joanna Moncrieff formed critical psychiatry/ psychology groups such as The Critical Psychiatry Network (UK). 
Originating from England, this network has spread internationally and includes multiple philosophical positions 
which may not all be conceptually linked to postmodernism. Activists are mainly preoccupied with the political 
and ethical aspects of clinical psychiatric practice as well as an effort to limit the influence of the pharmaceutical 
industry on psychiatry and mental health care (Double, 2002). The views on the impact of the pharmacological 
industry shall be discussed in a later section of this review. 
An article by Kecmanovic (2009), bearing the notable title of Postpsychiatry: How to throw out the baby with the 
bathwater, challenged the fundamental concepts of the postpsychiatry movement. Primarily, the author argued 
against the insistence of advocates of postpsychiatry in de-prioritising traditional psychiatric diagnosis as this risks 
a distraction from understanding the problem in a holistic person-centred approach: 
For example, frontal lobe tumor may underlie someone’s low energy levels, depression, confusion, forgetfulness, 
lack of initiative and loss of interest in people and matters. Should psychiatrists first look for the meaning of such 
symptoms in the patient’s social context, and thereby let his or her mental and most likely physical state as well 
deteriorate; or should they first rule out any possible physical-biological cause of the said symptoms? (Kecmanovic, 
2009, p.278). 
In the subsequent argument, the author reasoned that with the exception of involuntary treatment, the psychiatrist 
does not attempt to impose a diagnosis on a patient but simply provides advice to someone who has voluntarily 
sought the psychiatrist’s opinion: 
In a good number of cases patients do not have their own view of where their mental problems came from. (After 
all, that is why they look for professional assistance.) They can accept or reject the psychiatrist’s interpretation, or 
might be indifferent towards it. If they accept it, and the results of the treatment turns out to be below the patients’ 
expectations, patients are free to seek assistance from another psychiatrist who follows the principles of another 
psychiatric model (Kecmanovic, 2009, p.279). 
In the cases of more severe conditions such as psychosis, which may lead to involuntary treatment, Kecmanovic 
(2009) then justified the imposition of the psychiatrist’s diagnosis due to the fact that the patient’s mental pathology 



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may limit his/her ability to interpret his/her symptoms correctly. He argued in favour of this practice by describing 
it as being: “The same right mutatis mutandis a physician has to impose on a patient an explanation for his or her 
for example jaundice or bleeding, or impaired sighting that may conflict with the patient’s reading of these troubles” 
(p.279).  
Finally, Kecmanovic (2009) used Spitzer’s words as the last say in this argument by sharing his view that a 
proposal of a joint diagnostic system between the service provider and the service user is not practical or necessary. 
On a critical note, it has to be said that since Spitzer was the leading figure in the production of the new DSM 
versions, it is hardly surprising that he seems to prefer a psychiatrist’s diagnostic monopoly.  
In the second part of his article, Kecmanovic (2009) addressed the issue of treatment and recovery. The author 
accurately described how generally, postpsychiatrists argue against the proven effectiveness of pharmacotherapy. 
He also elaborated on the postpsychiatry view that the term recovery is not synonymous to treatment and it does 
not imply a complete resolution of symptoms. Rather, it is applied to a state of being where the individual is 
enjoying a good quality of life enhanced by a sense of freedom and the ability to “speak out”. It is rather 
disappointing that the building of these arguments led to a rather abrupt and short counter-argument by the author 
where he simply stated that experience has shown that psychosis triggers hostile reactions from society and so it 
has to be treated professionally. Conclusively, the author refrained from taking sides and alternatively reflected on 
a recommendation by Jakovljevic. This refers to the suggested use of pluralist and integrated approaches as these 
may be the most promising contemporary concepts of psychiatric practice (Jakovljevic, 2007 as cited in 
Kecmanovic, 2009). 
Conclusion 
The 20th and early 21st centuries were crucial times in the evolution of the psychiatric discipline, and they were the 
bridge between a dearth of knowledge in relation to mental illness to a period where the field is well-structured 
and better understood. Importantly, the era that followed, witnessed the release of patients from their chains and 
from other barbaric practices that were often forced on the individual under the name of treatment. During the 20th 
and early 21st centuries, the mental health domain was painted by a tug of war of opposing viewpoints with illness 
on one side of the spectrum, genius on the other, and reactions to problems in living featuring somewhere in 
between. It cannot be denied that opposing mainstream and radical views add fascinating dimensions to this area. 
Conclusively, Jakovljevic (2013) postulated that in psychiatry, there is no one unified theory and practice, but a 
plethora of theories and practices that range from pharmacotherapy, electrical stimulation, psychological therapies, 
education and life coaching: 
Different schools of thought assessing mental health and mental disorders have given rise to different perspectives 
of psychiatry: the medical or disease perspective, and the dimensional, cognitive, behavioural, narrative, spiritual 
and systems perspectives. Each of these perspectives tends to analyze, understand, define and treat mental 
disorders in different ways, each with their own merits (p.203).  
Unfortunately, this loose assembly of approaches has been the target of criticism in relation to a lack of clear 
pathways (Jakovljevic, 2013). However, it may also be viewed as a strength since it provides service providers 
and service users with various options that can be explored and tested as a matter of personal preference and 
effectiveness. 
Declarations 
Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-
profit sectors. 
Disclosure: The authors disclose no conflict of interest 

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>> setpagedevice

