["Perhaps, the night, I cry while I write": strategies for survival of p.v.p. patients].
The history of modern psychiatry has been written by people who have made a career of studying the world of mental health. Especially since the 1960s, many historians, journalists, sociologists and psychiatrists have described and analysed the contradictions of this new science and its applications to specific clienteles. What about psychiatric survivors themselves? How do they view their experience? What is their opinion of the care they have received? Few studies have looked at their written version of psychiatry. This article explores some of the writings signed by survivors of psychiatry to determine how they assess their experience. For this exploratory study, 5 sources are looked at: 1 in Ontario, 2 in Quebec, 1 in New Brunswick and 1 on the World Wide Web. The author stresses the potential of these "voices of experience" and the unique abilities of the victims of psychiatry to describe and analyse the oppression they have been through.
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Université d'Ottawa.
D002170:Canada; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern / Q000266:history*; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D017741:Survivors / Q000266:history