Scottish Union of Mental Patients
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The Scottish Union of Mental Patients was an organisation first established by mental patients at Hartwood Hospital in July 1971.[1]: 38 27 patients signed a petition to "redress of grievances and better conditions" at the hospital.[1]: 38 This was the first Mental Patients Union to be formed in the UK and predated the Mental Patients' Union founded in London in 1973.[2] It was founded by ,Thomas Ritchie, and Robin Farquharson was also a participant.[3] Unlike many other examples of anti-psychiatry SUMP was based on a sense of solidarity amongst a small group of patients detained in locked wards.[1]