Abstract
Mental health awareness campaigns encourage compassionate citizen-to-citizen support and intervention. Rooted in the discipline of psychiatry, mental health awareness campaigns promote psychiatric assumptions without disclosing the longstanding interdisciplinary critique of psychiatry, much of which is articulated by psychiatry itself. The public deserves access to this well-documented controversy since even brief involvement with the mental health system can produce irreversible, lifelong outcomes. Social construction scholarship has contributed to the critique of psychiatry, and thus social constructionist helping professionals may be well positioned to share important critical information in a compassionate and respectful manner. This article draws on the scholarly and professional critique of psychiatry to expose and confront three central psychiatric truth claims disseminated through mental health awareness campaigns. An open-ended series of questions is then offered with the aim of strengthening awa...
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