Psychiatry Interrogated

Bonnie Burstow is Associate Professor at University of Toronto, Canada.  She is also a philosopher, feminist therapist, and antipsychiatry activist. Other works include: Psychiatry and the Business of Madness (2015),  Radical Feminist Therapy (1992), Psychiatry Disrupted (2014), ”Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work”, and “A Rose by Any Other Name: Naming and the Battle against Psychiatry”

• Introduction to the Project: IE Researchers Take on Psychiatry .-  Stopping CAMH: An Activist IE Inquiry .-  “A Kind of Collective Freezing Out: How Helping Professionals’ Regulatory Bodies Create Professional “Incompetence” and Increase Pathologizable Distress .- Spirituality: A Participatory Planning Process .-  Operation ASD: Philanthrocapitalism, Spectumization, and the Role of the Parent .- Interrogating the Rights Discourse and Knowledge Making Regimes of the ‘Movement for Global Mental Health’ .-  Pathologizing Military Trauma: How Service Members Veterans and Those Who Care about Them Fall Prey to Institutional Capture and the DSM .- The Caring Professions, Not So Caring?: An Analysis of Bullying and Distress in the Academy .- Creating a Better Workplace in Our Minds .-Lawyering for the Mad: Social Organization of Legal Representation in Involuntary Admission Cases in Poland .-  By Any Other Name: An Exploration of the Academic Development of Torture and Its Links to the Military and Psychiatry .- The Afterword: Where Have We Been?: What Have We Found Out?; Where do We Go From Here?.

"Psychiatry Interrogated is a powerful and compelling work, that demonstrates how common reactions of the how-can-that-happen? variety can serve as springboards to unraveling and exposing the complex, repressive, and inherently destructive nature of psychiatry. Each chapter has an extensive reference list for those who wish to pursue any of the topics in greater depth. The book is dedicated to 'everyone everywhere who has ever fallen prey to institutional psychiatry.'" (Mad in America, madinamerica.com, January, 2017)