thank you for joining us in disrupting mental health

on april 1 and 2, 2023, the Conference on Critical Psychiatry provided a weekend of interdisciplinary discussion to challenge notions that “mental health” can be described by way of any single institution. by forming panels across subjects and positionalities, we reimagined who gets to speak: service users, young ppl, and others who are psychiatrized (but often kept out of discussions of psychiatric care) were joined by the more normatively commanding. our dialogue spanned high schoolers, grad students, professors, clinicians, and activists. talking and having a good time 🙂

blogposts and selected recordings now available.

directed by joseph sexton co-organized by alma ionescu + nika mavrody + shannon pagdon + doah shin + (twitter-less) wenzhi pan + mel b