High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! he Psychiatric survivors movement is a loose coalition of people who, united by the resentment that they have been harmed or betrayed by psychiatry, advocate in favor of mental health treatment alternatives, or just the right to freedom from the system, for those diagnosed with (or simply accused of being afflicted by) mental illnesses. The wider movement is also known as the Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement.According to members of the Psychiatric Survivors Movement, some people considered mentally ill, and subsequently mistreated by certain psychiatrists or by psychiatric doctrine in general, do not benefit from the services offered or forced upon them.