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Burstow Takes on Psychiatry: A Special Talk at the Toronto Reference Library


December 06, 2016


Announcing: A very radical library talk on a matter more urgent than even most critics dare to acknowledge. As more and more "mental disorders" are added to the ever expanding psychiatric bible "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" and more and more people find themselves on psychotropic drugs, voices of critique are progressively heard. Central among them is Bonnie Burstow, author of Psychiatry and the Business of Madness. A professor at University of Toronto, a renowned scholar, a philosopher, an activist, and a Rabble author, advancing further than other critics, in this book, depicting psychiatry as a self-interested business, Burstow makes the case that psychiatry's tenets are totally foundationless, that psychiatry intrinsically harms, and she calls on society to admit that the turn toward psychiatry was a colossal misstep. Correspondingly, the book invites readers into a societal conversation about how instead we might approach the problems to which human beings are heir. What, in short, is this library talk? An extensive introduction to antipsychiatry. And the beginnings of a much needed social dialogue. The public lecture will go for an hour and it will be followed by what is expected to be a highly animated Q&A, together with comments from the audience.

Time: 6:30PM-8:30PM
Venue: Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium, Toronto Reference Libary
Location: 789 Yonge St. Toronto, ON
Website: http://l-talk-toronto-reference-library
Categories: Disability Issues

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