PSAT Information Brochure in PDF format.
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The Collection
The Project is in its early stages. The Archives plans to collect any and all materials related to the history and perspective of psychiatric survivors, consumers, as well as allies in the wider community. This includes anti-psychiatry material as well as pro-psychiatry material and everything in between. The one stipulation is that material being collected must have been created by or reflect the perspectives of people who have been or who are psychiatric survivors and or consumers.
A sample of some of the material we have and collect includes:
- First Person Accounts (published & unpublished biographies and autobiographies)
- Women and Psychiatry
- Organized groups
- Movement Groups
- Video and Audio tapes
- Drugs and Drug Companies
- Psychiatry, race and ethnicity
Guide to Holdings
We are applying simple, accepted archival arrangement and description to ease access. PSAT material is divided into A and B accessions dependent on whether it is organizational or private personal records respectively.
A1 Psychiatric Survivor Archives, Toronto
Exhibit material
The Provincial Asylum in Toronto and Mimico. Reflections
on Social and Architectural History. March 6 to June 20, 2004.
A2005/0001 3 inches of records
MindFreedom
Files, journals, posters, flyers, correspondence, print
and near print materials about the psychiatric survivor movement in North
America. One largestoragebox 10 by 4 x 6 inches. A2005/0002
B1 Lilith Finkler.
Work files of a psychiatric survivor activist and paralegal
with the Parkdale Community Legal Services. Four boxes of material. B2004/0001
B2 Allen Markman Collection.
Organizational files including tape recordings, correspondence. transcripts and related materials i n the process of arriving relecting the growth and development of the psychiatricsurvivor movement in North America and beyond. Twelve large storage boxes expected. B2006/0001