PsychOUT Conference
May 7-8, 2010

Proceedings of the PsychOUT Conference

 

ABSTRACT: Jeffrey Myers

Strategic Uses of Video in Antipsychiatry Activism

(no paper is attached to this workshop)

This 15-minute video presentation explored the possibilities for strategic uses of video in antipsychiatry activism. In part, it recalled how video was used to document and spread the word about historic public hearings about psychiatric drugs and electroshock “therapy” held in Toronto, Canada in 2005 by the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA). The presentation also examined issues such as access to technology, a basic “how-to” guide, and strategic uses in other resistance struggles.