Editing Anti-psychiatry (section)

=== Tool of social control ===
[[File:Whitchurch Hospital Corridor Abandoned West5 Ward.jpg|thumb|right|Whitchurch Hospital]]
According to Franco Basaglia, [[Giorgio Antonucci]], and [[Bruce E. Levine]], whose approach pointed out the role of psychiatric institutions in the control and medicalization of [[Deviance (sociology)|deviant behaviors]] and social problems, psychiatry is used as the provider of scientific support for social control to the existing establishment, and the ensuing standards of deviance and normality brought about repressive views of discrete social groups.<ref name=LevineAlterNet /><ref name="Antonucci 1986">{{cite book|last=Antonucci |first=Giorgio |title=I pregiudizi e la conoscenza critica alla psichiatria (preface by Thomas Szasz)|trans-title=The prejudices and critical knowledge to psychiatry|editor-last=Coppola|editor-first=Alessio |edition=1st |publisher=Apache Cooperative Ltd |place=Rome |year=1986}}{{page needed|date=January 2014}}</ref><ref name="Sapouna">{{cite book|last1=Sapouna |first1=Lydia |last2=Herrmann |first2=Peter |title=Knowledge in Mental Health: Reclaiming the Social |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1-X6iP-m9UC&pg=PA70 |publisher=Nova Publishers |location=Hauppauge |year=2006 |page=70 |isbn=978-1-59454-812-3 |access-date=2014-01-12}}</ref>{{rp|70}} According to Mike Fitzpatrick, resistance to medicalization was a common theme of the gay liberation, anti-psychiatry, and feminist movements of the 1970s, but now there is actually no resistance to the advance of government intrusion in lifestyle if it is thought to be justified in terms of public health.<ref name=Fitzpatrick>{{cite journal|last=Fitzpatrick |first=Mike |title=From 'nanny state' to 'therapeutic state' |journal=[[The British Journal of General Practice]] |date=August 2004 |volume=54 |issue=505 |page=645 |pmc=1324868 |pmid=15517694}}</ref>

In the opinion of Mike Fitzpatrick, the pressure for medicalization also comes from society itself. As one example, Fitzpatrick claims that feminists who once opposed state intervention as oppressive and patriarchal, now demand more coercive and intrusive measures to deal with child abuse and domestic violence.<ref name=Fitzpatrick /> According to Richard Gosden, the use of psychiatry as a tool of social control is becoming obvious in preventive medicine programs for various mental diseases.<ref name="Gosden">{{cite book |last=Gosden |first=Richard |title=Punishing the Patient: How Psychiatrists Misunderstand and Mistreat Schizophrenia |year=2001 |publisher=Scribe Publications |location=Melbourne |isbn=978-0-908011-52-0 |page=14 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/punishingthepatient/human-rights/social-control |access-date=2012-01-19 |archive-date=2015-05-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514180101/https://sites.google.com/site/punishingthepatient/human-rights/social-control |url-status=live }} {{link note|note=[http://sites.google.com/site/punishingthepatient/home The text of the book in full is available online]}}</ref>{{rp|14}} These programs are intended to identify children and young people with divergent behavioral patterns and thinking and send them to treatment before their supposed mental diseases develop.<ref name="Gosden" />{{rp|14}} Clinical guidelines for best practice in Australia{{Citation needed|reason=What are these clinical guidelines you describe - dubious statement |date=July 2020}} include the risk factors and signs which can be used to detect young people who are in need of prophylactic drug treatment to prevent the development of schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions.<ref name="Gosden" />{{rp|14}}