PSYCHOUT

A Conference For Organizing Resistance Against Psychiatry

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May 7 & 8, 2010

About This Conference

The purpose of this globalconference is to provide a forum for psychiatric survivors, mad
people, activists, scholars, students,radical professionals, and artists from around the world to come together and share experiences of organizing against psychiatry.Dialogue about these experiences is intended:

• to foster networking and coalition building across social justice movements, disciplines
and geographical locations

• to clarify some key goals in the struggle against psychiatric oppression

• to develop some longer-term strategies to help us achieve these goals

• to help us critically examine how we use specific tools for social change, such as the law,
science, theory, media, art, and theatre.

This conference is focused on theory and practice that is directly related to developing strategic actions aimed at challenging the power of institutional psychiatry.

Conference Website:
http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/psychout/

Contact Email:
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*Thank you to our sponsors… *

Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault

Adult Education and Community
Development at OISE/UT

Counselling Psychology Program at OISE/UT

Sociology and Equity Studies at OISE/UT

Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto

Centre for Women Studies in Education at OISE/UT

Transformative Learning Centre at OISE/UT

School of Disability Studies at Ryerson University

Nova Scotia Cerebral Palsy Association

Tooker Gomberg Greenspiration Fund

DisAbled Women's Network Ontario

Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/ Multicultural

Women Against Rape

The Opal Project

Nationwide Call to Action: Stop Forced “Mental Health Treatment”

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Call For Papers (Deadline February 15, 2010)

This global interdisciplinary, cross-movement conference welcomes academic papers, workshop, or
creative presentation submissions that can include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Feminist organizing against psychiatry

• Anti-racist organizing against psychiatry

• Queer and trans resistance against psychiatry

• Resisting colonizing practices of psychiatry

• Resisting psychiatric interference in nations called “developing”

• Negotiating the complex space between critical disability and antipsychiatry perspectives

• Intersections between anti-poverty movements and antipsychiatry

• Networking and coalition building across disciplines and social movements

• Commonalities and tensions within the antipsychiatry, psychiatric survivor, and mad communities

• Building a global antipsychiatry movement

• Developing long-term strategies to meet antipsychiatry abolitionist goals

• Artistic and creative resistance

• Consciousness-raising initiatives

• Using the law to protect the rights of psychiatrized people

• Supporting youth and other vulnerable groups who are resisting psychiatrization

• Using science to undermine psychiatric theory and practice

• Media campaigns: Challenges, obstacles and breakthroughs

• Examining movement history to inform present-day strategy and action

• The struggle to ban electroshock: strategies, victories, mistakes and challenges

• Resisting the pharmaceutical industry

• Envisioning and creating alternatives

• Resisting the spread of psychiatric control in the community, such as community treatment sanctions

Paper abstracts, workshop or creative presentation descriptions should be between 200 and 300 words in length. Pre-formed panel proposals are also encouraged. The due date for submission is February 15, 2010. All submissions will be peer-reviewed. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, and the author would like their paper to be considered for publication in a book of conference proceedings, a full draft of the paper should be submitted by Monday, May 24, 2010.

All submissions should be made online at
http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/psychout/index/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions.


The Conference Organizing Committee would like to acknowledge that the process for submitting papers online can be difficult at first, particularly for those who are new to this conference software or for those who are not familiar with academic conference terminology. We wish that we could change the process to make it more accessible for people who are not used to this process, but it comes with the territory of the software we are using. Please do not let this deter you from making a submission. If you experience difficulties at any step of the submission or registration process, please call 416 946 8026 or 416 919 2609 for technical assistance.

Registration

The registration fees for the conference are listed below. Please note that the conference organizing committee does not want to exclude any individual for financial reasons, so we have two categories of registration that are free.

Registration Type /Cost

Regular Registration: $290

Early Regular Registration
(on or prior to March 1, 2010): $250

Student Registration: $145

Early Student Registration (on or prior to March 1, 2010): $125

Student Volunteer Registration: Free

Low-Income Registration : Free

Please register online at
http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/psychout/PsychOUT/schedConf/registration