#because i think that psych abolition needs to build cross movement solidarity.

[trans-axolotl]

Hi! I'm trying to find some good antipsych resources for my younger brother. Ze's been passionate about a lot of related stuff for a while due to zir own experiences with psychiatry and I want to encourage zir but ze's only 16 and has never read the kind of complex or academic stuff that a lot of antipsych writing I've seen is. Can you recommend anything? Especially if it overlaps with youth liberation.

Hi anon! I'm mostly going to link resources that are more about the politics/principles/history of psych abolition/antipsychiatry rather then antipsych resources for coping with madness, but let me know if it would also be helpful to have those kind of resources.

content notes: a lot of these materials talk directly about psychiatric abuse, incarceration, suicide, and self harm.

Articles/Zines:

There is no abolition without anti-psychiatry by the Campaign for Psych Abolition

Myths of Psychiatric Incarceration by @ embracingambiguity (insta)

Belief in Psychotherapy by Kai Cheng Thom

Myth of Mental Health by Kai Cheng Thom

Mental Patients Liberation Front newsletter 1987

Abolition Must Include Psychiatry by Stella Akua Mensah

Psychiatry's Role in the Occupation of Palestine by Campaign for Psych Abolition

Sentenced to Trauma: Inside the volatility and disorder of prison by Carla J Simmons

Camille Moran Papers

Girls do what they have to do to survive by YWEP

Madness and Oppression by the Icarus Project

Asylum Magazine

Madness Network News

Books:

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll

here's the link to my full drive of psych abolition resources sorted by topic as well.

if followers have nonacademic antipsych resources to add on, please do!