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In this chapter, readers are treated to two antipsychiatry veterans—Don Weitz and author Dr. Bonnie Burstow—evaluating their decades of activism together as well as musing over directions for the future. Focal topics include decent survivor-centered alternatives, human rights violations, abolishing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and the need to bring back direct action. Don also shares a revealing part of his own personal history—how he went from being a “psychiatric patient”, to being a “mental health” professional, to being a psychiatric survivor/antipsychiatry activist. Speaking of “gutsy” personal transformation!
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Burstow, B. (2019). “There Is No Place on This Planet for Psychiatry Period!”: Dialogue with Don Weitz. In: The Revolt Against Psychiatry. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23331-0_9
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