When I went back to college at 35 and was studying modern European and Middle Eastern history trying to make sense of being a Jew and the general state of the world and how we all got here, I remember being struck by the similarities between the rise of the… Continue reading
As someone who was told as an 18 year old that I had a biological brain disease and that my visions and behavior meant I needed to be held down and shot up with antipsychotic drugs for months in a locked mental hospital, I take very personally how our current… Continue reading
Martin and I gave a talk in his town of Seville tonight and it was pretty awesome. There were about 25 of us in a room at a university. So much to write but I’ll just leave you with this recording. Mad love from Southern Spain Continue reading
There’s a really good story behind this poster image, and I look forward to telling you all about it, but the very short version is: there’s a group of anarchists in Southern Spain that managed to get money from the Andalusian government to bring me and my old friend Will… Continue reading
This video was shot back in January of 2015 in Santiago, Chile at the Alternatives to Psychiatry Conference. There is a crowd of at least 150 Chileans packed into a community center listening to our talk. The woman translating is the amazing Happy Lee del Canto Sabag. The man speaking with… Continue reading
Earlier this week we had visitors to New York City from the British Psychology Society come to share their most recent publication: Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia. The NYC Icarus Project invited Anne Cooke and Peter Kinderman to Bluestockings Bookstore and Cafe to give a well received presentation. The video is… Continue reading
So here’s a video shot and edited by Erin Lemkey of NYC Icarus at Bluestockings last week. I came back from Argentina and Chile full of stories. What’s not on this video is the on fire conversation that happened afterwards with a room full of New Yorkers about international solidarity… Continue reading
