Santos AS. A virtual script about biosocial and biodesertion activism in the User, Ex-patient, and Survivor of Psychiatry Movement. Interface (Botucatu). 2023; 27:e210814. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.210814
Abstract
The difficulty defining a term to describe the movement indicated in the title of this article illustrates its heterogeneity: users, ex-patients, and survivors of Psychiatry are some of the names used by the groups who advocate for the rights of people undergoing psychiatric treatment (including the right to refuse treatment) and the creation of self-help networks, designed to be an alternative to the Mental Health system in the context of the United States. I invite the reader to understand a little about the history of this movement using the script of a documentary that has not and will never be recorded, but is narrated virtually in this text with the intention of situating the movement’s role and proposing a theoretical discussion that articulates the concepts of biosocial and biodesertion activism.
Keywords
Political activism; Patient refusal of treatment; Involuntary psychiatric treatment; Mental health; Psychiatry
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