Bonnie Burstow’s anti-psychiatry activism and an attrition model for the termination of psychiatry
For decades antipsychiatry activists have called for an end to psychiatry but the movement has offered little vision of how to bring about that end. An unpopular movement such as antipsychiatry which is at odds with the state and prevailing hegemony begins at a serious disadvantage.
At a recent international event called PsychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry, antipsychiatry activist and feminist Dr. Bonnie Burstow, a senior lecturer at University of Toronto, presented an “attrition model” for psychiatry. She joins us to talk about what she describes as “the withering away of psychiatry.”
