Resources

Here is a list of books and websites I have helped me create this blog (updated as new resources are discovered)

Books

Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitiker

Let Them Eat Prozac by Dr. David Healy

Manufacturing Depression by Gary Greenberg

Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement by Linda J. Morrison

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl

The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption, and, Yes, Happiness by Jan Wong

Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney

Mad Matters edited by Brenda LeFrancois, Robert Menzies and Geoffrey Reaume

Workbooks

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood and Jeffrey Brantly

Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook by Chris Healy

The Hurt Yourself Less Workbook by Eleanor Dace, Alison Faulkner, Miranda Frost, Karin Parker, Louise Pembroke, Andy Smith

Websites

Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA): www.cmha.ca

Canadian Human Rights Commission: http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/default-eng.aspx

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH): www.camh.net

DSM 5: www.dsm5.org

Mad in America : http://www.madinamerica.com

Making Bipolar Britney: Proliferating psychiatric diagnoses through tabloid media: www.radicalpsychology.org/vol7-2/Voronka.html

Mental Health Commission of Canada: http://www.mentalhealthcommission.ca

Mental Health Helpline (Canada): http://www.mentalhealthhelpline.ca/

Mental Health Humor: http://blogs.psychcentral.com/humor/

MindFreedom International: http://www.mindfreedom.org/

Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC): http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en

RxISK: https://www.rxisk.org/Default.aspx

The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan Metzel: http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2010/06/story.php?id=7776

The Stigma of CineMania: www.mentalhealthstigma.com

Young Ones- Breaking Barriers Organization: http://youngones.ca/ 

HealthyPlace.com Mental Health Information and Support: http://www.HealthyPlace.com

Organizations/Groups

PsychOUT Conference

The Madvocates (@TheMadvocates and Madvocacy)

RyeACCESS Reclaiming Our Bodies and Minds

Films

Crooked Beauty (2011) Director, Ken Paul Rosenthal

Generation Rx (2008) Director, Kevin Miller