The Dr. Bonnie Burstow Scholarship in Antipsychiatry

Dr. Bonnie Burstow: The Revolt Against Psychiatry book launch Jan 24, 2020

Mary Maddock in memory of Bonnie Burstow

PFV Interview with Bonnie Burstow: Post-Feminism and Intersectionality

PFV Interview with Bonnie Burstow: Feminism and Anti-Psychiatry

"Psychiatry interrogated" edited by Bonnie Burstow

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This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into psychiatry―the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of different geographic locations and constitutes a major contribution to anti/critical psychiatry, as well as institutional ethnography. Themes include the DSM, the use and protection of problematic psychiatric research, the penetration of psychiatry into the workplace. Adding depth and breath, the contributors, while all are schooled in IE, come from a large variety of walks of life, authors including: academics, psychiatric survivors, investigative reporters, activists, nurses, artists, and lawyers―each bringing their own unique expertise/standpoint to bear. The result is an intellectually rigorous book, contributions to several disciplines, ammunition for activism, and a compelling read that cannot be put down.

Psychiatry disrupted - theorizing resistance and crafting the (r)evolution by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond

Abstract

There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it. Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad activism, antiracist, critical, and radical disability studies, as well as feminist, Marxist, and anarchist thought. The editors and contributors are activists and academics - adult education and social work professors, psychologists, prominent leaders in the psychiatric survivor movement, and artists - from across Canada, England, and the United States. From chapters discussing feminist opposition to the medicalization of human experience, to the links between psychiatry and neo-liberalism, to internal tensions within the various movements and different identities from which people organize, the collection theorizes psychiatry while contributing to a range of scholarship and presenting a comprehensive overview of resistance to psychiatry in the academy and in the community.

UCLA/ISEPP - Bonnie Burstow