31 Okt 1985 Jahr - Campaign Against Psychiatric Oppression

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Formed out of PROMPT (Protection of the Rights of Mental Patients in Therapy) in March 1985. CAPO met in a pub called The Wheatsheaf on Edgware Road. Name change was instituted to liberate themselves from the “mental patient” stigma.

Explicitly anti-professional in nature; they advocated abstinence of contact with statutory services.


Ran a successful workshop at a MIND conference entitled "Who are the Consumers?", putting forward the notion that the consumers are those who benefit from having someone psychiatrised- whatever the reason might be - workplaces, schools, families, the army, and so on- it was remarked that we don’t choose to consume psychiatry, but we unconsciously perpetuate it in doing so.

Postulated that “When a person's behaviour is intolerable to his/her fellow humans, it is usually because his or her situation is intolerable to him or her, and such a person may need help to change the situation they are in” It was put forth that, by extension, psychiatric institutions, and, indeed, psychiatry as a whole, reinforce this situation by forcing patients to adapt and acquiesce to it.


Also questioned our understanding of “mental health” – that the term often denotes the measures of one’s exploitability by those who own the means of production and distribution of commodities.

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