THE REVOLT AGAINST PSYCHIATRY. A COUNTERHEGEMONIC DIALOGUE

1. Introduction to This Book and to This Project
2. “It Is All About Racism”: Dialogue with IndigenousScholar and Activist Roland Chrisjohn
3. “Our Freedom of Speech over our Medical License”: Dialogue with The Conscience of Psychiatry"—Peter Breggin
4. Dialogue with Journalist Extraordinaire: Robert Whitaker
5. Dialogue with Survivor and Academic Lauren Tenney
6. On Berlin Runaway House: Dialogue with Wichera
7. Toward a Democratic Psychiatry? Dialogue with Ian Parker
8. “Activism Is My Real Job”: The Mad Movement in Chile Dialogue with Tatiana Castillo
9. “There Is No Place on This Planet for Psychiatry Period!”: Dialogue with Don Weitz
10. Autistic and Mad: Dialogue with Nick Walter
11. Dialogue with Indigenous Leader and Psych Survivor Michael
12. “This is Not a Time to Lie Low”: Dialogue with International Lawyer, Survivor, and Human Rights Advocate Tina Minkowitz
13. “I So Loved My Son that I Had to Promise Him that I Had Do Everything that I Could”: Dialogue with Mother and Archivist Julie Wood
14. Epistemicide: Dialogue with “Global Mental Health” Critic China Mills
15. “The Movement Is an Intrinsic Part of Who I Am”: Dialogue with Bonnie Burstow.

A real eye-opener, this riveting anti/critical psychiatry book is comprised of original cutting-edge dialogues between Burstow (an antipsychiatry theorist and activist) and other leaders in the “revolt against psychiatry,” including radical practitioners, lawyers, reporters, activists, psychiatric survivors, academics, family members, and artists. People in dialogue with the author include Indigenous leader Roland Chrisjohn, psychiatrist Peter Breggin, survivor Lauren Tenney, and scholar China Mills. The single biggest focus/tension in the book is a psychiatry abolition position versus a critical psychiatry (or reformist) position. In the scope of this project, Burstow considers the ways racism, genocide, Indigeneity, sexism, media bias, madness, neurodiversity, and strategic activism are intertwined with critical and antipsychiatry.

Features
• Includes dialogues with various leaders in the movement for an intersectional analysis
• Makes an effort to unify multiple movements into one conversation without oversimplifying discrete critiques
• Provides an excellent overview of the complex issues involved in anti/critical psychiatry