Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival

Jan Haaken talks with Grace Silvia about the Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival.  The organization Rethinking Psychiatry is an activist organization trying to shift away from pathologizing and toward recognizing a variety of ways of being in the world, toward recognizing that psychological suffering is often a result of problems in society or a consequence of trauma, and toward countering the pharmaceutical industry's model of easy cures for the spiritual or medical ailments of modern life. The first night's videos April 2nd explore the Soteria model of being with people going through psychotic breaks with no or minimal medication. The festival schedule was planned collaboratively and continues through April, ending with a screening of Guilty Except for Insanity. The films play on Wednesdays or Fridays through April with a suggested donation of $5-$15 .