I’m not sure this is particularly new. It’s been going on as long as I’ve been doing this work. It’s certainly getting louder as Joanna Moncrieff points out here. To be clear: appropriate criticism is not prejudice and when people who have been harmed by psychiatry speak the truth that is most often done from a place of civic responsibility. I’ve often said I know things I wish I didn’t know, because there is no way that one can witness and understand the harm I (and folks like Joanna Moncrieff) have seen and stay silent in good conscience.
See also, from a couple of days ago: Psychiatry causes harm and it’s widely denied: psychiatrist shares her sadness about her profession