PsychOUT Conference
May 7-8, 2010

Proceedings of the PsychOUT Conference

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 3: Papers and Workshops
     
  The Relationship between Spiritual and Political Resistance to Psychiatric Assault Abstract
  TINA MINKOWITZ  
     
  'Nervous Breakdown' as Shamanic Initiation: Awakening from 'Madness' and Becoming Who You Are
Abstract
  M. ANN PHILLIPS  
     
  Taking Our Stories to the Streets - A Mobile Public Art Installation Performance & Invitation to Dialogue
Abstract
  GORETT AMARAL REIS, COREEN GILLIGAN  
     
  Committed to the Sane Asylum: Art as Political Action Abstract
  SUSAN ANN SCHELLENBERG, ROSEMARY BARNES  
     
  Our Stories May Have us be Labeled Crazy, but they are Stories of Resistance Abstract
  AMARDEEP K PRINCE  
     
  Class Aspiration, Diaspora, and Dis-ease with the ‘Neurasthenic’ Condition: Feminist Sense-making Through an Institutional Autoethnography of OCD Discourse Abstract
  LOUISE TAM  
     
  Affirming Positive Change Abstract
  TOM SMARDA  
     
  Rehearse for the Revolution: Creative Resistance with Theatre of the Oppressed
Abstract
  CHRISTINE MAYOR, NAOMI TESSLER  
     
  (De)Voiced: An Environmental Community Based Participatory Action Research (ECBPAR) Dissertation Project
Abstract
  LAUREN J TENNEY  
     
  Online Journal Publishing as a Virtual Fortress of Resistance Abstract
  BRENDA LeFRANCOIS  
     
  The Madwoman in the Academy: Making Space for the Mad Movement in Feminist Scholarship and Interdisciplinary Studies
Abstract
  PHEBE ANN MARJORY WOLFRAME  
     
  What Makes us a Community? Reflecting on Alliance Among the Antipsychiatry, Psychiatric Survivor and Mad Movements
Abstract
  SHAINDL LIN DIAMOND  
     
  Honey Versus Vinegar Abstract
  IRIT SHIMRAT  
     
  Resistance to Coercive Psychiatry - A New Beginning Abstract
  KAMAYANI BALI-MAHABAL  
     
  Young, Mad, Queer and Homeless in Toronto Abstract
  ILONA ABRAMOVICH  
     
  Queer Lens of Resistance: A Critical Anti-Oppressive Response to the DSM-V Consultations
Abstract
  NICK JOSEPH MULE, ANDREA DALEY  
     
  Too Much Has Happened That Will Never Be Told: Lesbian Madness Narratives Since the 1970'S
Abstract
  ALISA DAS  
     
  Our Lives, Our Struggle: A Round-Table Strategy Session for Survivors Abstract
  GRAEME BACQUE  
     
  "Did You Think I'd Crumble? Did You Think I'd Lay Down and Die? Oh no, not I": From Survivors' Stories to Feminist Organizing - The Continuum of Psychiatric Resistance in the Anti-Rape Movement

Abstract
  NICOLE E PIETSCH  
     
  Women and Mental Health Position Paper Abstract
  NELLIE'S WOMEN'S SHELTER, MEGHAN HOGG, REBECCA ROGERS  
     
  The Experience of Mad mothers: A Feminist Perspective Abstract
  TERRI-LYNN LANGDON  
     
  Social Work Curriculum and Mental Health: Prescribing a Social Model of Madness Abstract
  JENNA REID  
     
  Managing Compliance: Social Work, Governmentality and Pharmaceuticals Abstract
  CAITLIN AUDREY JANZEN  
     
  Becoming perpetrator: How I came to accept restraining and confining disabled Aboriginal children Abstract
  CHRIS CHAPMAN  
     
  Definitions and Divisions: Disability, Anti-Psychiatry and Disableism
Abstract
  A.J. WITHERS  
     
  ODSP Makes Me Mad: An Examination of the Coercive Mechanisms Embedded in the Ontario Disability Support Program and the Implications for Psychiatric Survivors/Consumers in the Neoliberal Era

Abstract
  TOBIN LEBLANC HALEY  
     
  Disability and Consumption: Re-Thinking Social Movements Abstract
  SAMANTHA LORI WALSH  
     
  You Can't Complain, You're Crazy - What Do You Know?" Working Towards Change at a Facility After an Admission
Abstract
  KATHRYN BOUNDY  
     
  Alters & Alternate Realties as Coping Mechanisms Abstract
  APRILLE JESSICA RHOMER  
     
  From Psychiatric Survivor to Nurse to Activist Abstract
  MORAN MILMAN  
     
  Legal Capacity and Law: Why it Matters Abstract
  TINA MINKOWITZ  
     
  Building Coalitions: Examples of Critical Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry and Ways to Protect Human Rights in Europe
Abstract
  PETER LEHMAN  
     
  A Supportive Housing Model Abstract
  DAVID WALSH  
     
  Speaking on Behalf of: The Narratives of Professional Advocacy Group (not the Mentally Ill) in the Creation of the Not Criminally Responsible Defense
Abstract
  ERIN DEJ  
     
  Surviving Abuse and the CPSO and the Ontario Court Processes Abstract
  DIANNE MICHLLE MOORE  
     
  Multi-Movement Organizing and Mad Movement Organizing: A Hands-On Strategy Workshop about Our Role in Global Nonviolent Revolution
Abstract
  DAVID W. OAKS, CELIA BROWN  
     
  Taking our Health Back from Big Pharma Controlled Governments Abstract
  David Carmichael  
     
  Electroshock Unplugged: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Organizing Against Electroshock by a Shock Survivor
Abstract
  ANDREA J. WHITE  
     
  Doctors of Deception: A Road Map for Organizing Against Shock Abstract
  LINDA ANDRE  
     
  Anti-Psychiatry Resistance in Ireland Abstract
  MARY ELLEN MADDOCK, JIM MADDOCK  
     
  Organizing Collective Resistance Through Children's Rights Legislation and Children's Advocacy
Abstract
  BRENDA LeFRANCOIS  
     
  Working with Youth Diagnosed with Mental health Issues as Collaborators in Research about the Stigma of Mental Illness
Abstract
  MARIA LIEGGHIO  
     
  Rooting Out the Weeds: Resisting White Settler & Psychiatric Supremacy Through a Critique of the Review of the Roots of Youth Violence
Abstract
  JIJIAN VORONKA  
     
  Resistance to Incarceration: The Intersection of Prison Abolition, Anti-Psychiatry and Deinstitutionalization
Abstract
  LIAT BEN-MOSHE  
     
  Pathologizing Race: My Brother's Short Life and Death as a Psychiatric Prisoner Abstract
  UBAH AGANEH  
     
  Governing Madness: Coercion, Resistance and Agency in British Columbia's Mental Health Law Regime
Abstract
  GENE FRASER