AN EVENING CELEBRATING THE TORONTO LAUNCH OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE BUSINESS OF MADNESS
When: September 18th, 2015, 5:30PM
Where: Nexus Lounge, 12th Floor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor West, Toronto (St. George subway station)
Co-hosts Bonnie Burstow, Palgrave Macmillan, the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault, the Transformative Learning Centre, and the Adult Education and Community Development Program at OISE/UT are all pleased to invite you to the Toronto book launch of her revolutionary new book—Psychiatry and the Business of Madness: An Ethical and Epistemological Accounting.
Why is everyone so excited about this book? Because it is the most hard-hitting and comprehensive critique of institutional psychiatry that has come out in decades. Speakers at the launch include the author herself, Robert Whitaker, David Cohen, Cheri DiNovo, and Anita Szigeti. The launch will culminate in a survivor speak-out.*
Bonnie Burstow is one of the world’s leading psychiatry abolition theorists, a philosopher, an activist, a feminist therapist, a prolific author, and a faculty member at University of Toronto. Her other books include: Psychiatry Disrupted; Radical Feminist Therapy; and Shrink-Resistant. Please visit bizomadness.blogspot.ca for updates on Bonnie’s research.
Robert Whitaker is a reporter, the guiding light behind the blog Mad in America, an outspoken critic of psychiatry, and a researcher. His books include Mad in America and Psychiatry Under the Influence.
David Cohen is Professor, School of Social Welfare, UCLA; and he is co-author of the widely read book Your Drug May Be Your Problem.
Rev. Cheri DiNovo is the Member of the Provincial Parliament representing Parkdale – High Park. She is currently the NDP critic of LGBTQ issues and Urban Transportation. She authored the groundbreaking bill 77 (2015) which would ban conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth, also 2010’s Bill 67, to de-list electroshock therapy from OHIP.
Anita Szigeti is the chair, Mental Disorder Portfolio, Criminal Lawyers’ Association and senior counsel at Anita Szigeti Advocates. She practices mental health law, representing vulnerable clients with “mental health” issues in civil and criminal justice proceedings and public interveners at inquests involving mental health issues or the law.
*If you are interested in being a part of the speak-out, please contact Bonnie Burstow at [email protected] or simply speak during the speak-out portion.