"Crooked Beauty is a poetic documentary that chronicles artist-activist Jacks McNamara's transformative journey from childhood abuse to psych ward patient to pioneering mental health advocacy." Here's the trailer:
"truth, courage, funk, jazz, blues, music, romanticism, progress, Beethoven, Charlie Parker...
Cornel West in the documentary, "Examined Life", directed by Astra Taylor.
"I'm a blues man in the life of the mind. I'm a jazz man in the world of ideas..."
"Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor went for a walk and engaged in a terrific conversation about disability as not merely some physical status but largely a social status, and that is also true for so called "able-bodied" persons."
Introducing Mad People's History.
Presenting the consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement:
Self-Labelling and Identity:
"We call mad people lots of names. Most of them are not meant to be complimentary. But what do mad people call themselves? Do they accept labels that others stick on them? Do they apply their own labels? Why might one person choose a different label than another? This is a short documentary in which 12 Toronto activists discuss how they identify themselves."
Icarus Project Peer Support, Part I - Checkins from Generic Prescriptions on Vimeo.
Icarus Project Peer Support, Part 1-Check-Ins
"Ajahn Brahm tackles the topic of depression"
"The first part is in my "native language," and then the second part provides a translation, or at least an explanation. This is not a look-at-the-autie gawking freakshow as much as it is a statement about what gets considered thought, intelligence, personhood, language, and communication, and what does not."
An audio of Makungu Akinyela interviewed by Cheryl White on democratising the field of therapy.
An article about Ignacio Martin-Baró's Liberation Psychology.
