Peter Statsny - Reimagining Psychiatry
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
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🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Peter Stastny is a New York-based psychiatrist, documentary filmmaker, and a co-founder of the International Network toward Alternatives and Recovery (INTAR). He has been working on the development of services that obviate traditional psychiatric intervention and offer autonomous paths towards recovery and full integration.
Stastny has frequently collaborated with psychiatric survivors in conducting research and writing projects, including the book and major exhibit at the New York State Museum, The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic(together with Darby Penney) and the edited volume Alternatives Beyond Psychiatry (with Peter Lehmann). He has directed several documentary films.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast. My name is Leah Harris, and I'm a correspondent with Madden America. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm so pleased to welcome our |
| 0:21.9 | guest today to the podcast, Dr. Peter Stasney, a critical psychiatrist, long-time advocate for |
| 0:28.3 | human rights and mental health, co-author with Darby Penny of The Lives They Left Behind, Suitcases |
| 0:35.0 | from a State Hospital attic, and co-editor with Dr. Peter Lehman of |
| 0:40.6 | alternatives beyond psychiatry. Welcome to the podcast, Peter. |
| 0:45.9 | Hi, Leah. Thanks for having me on. So I got to see you virtually. Recently, we both participated |
| 0:53.3 | in a meeting with Danias Pores, who's the special |
| 0:56.3 | rapporteur on the right to health and mental health at the United Nations. And I thought it was a |
| 1:02.4 | really interesting meeting with academics and activists for human rights. So maybe you could |
| 1:08.9 | start us off with your current work in the sphere of human rights |
| 1:13.1 | and working with the UN. Well, it's interesting you're bringing up the special rapporteur |
| 1:19.3 | because those of your listeners who have followed the reports that he's been producing |
| 1:26.4 | over the last three, four years, |
| 1:29.3 | must have noticed there's something really pretty radical coming out of the United Nations. |
| 1:34.3 | And interestingly, we have actually provided a lot of input and material. |
| 1:41.3 | And when I say we, I mean an organization called Intar, the international |
| 1:46.7 | networks towards alternatives and recovery, which I co-founded about 15 years ago. And the special |
| 1:55.1 | rapporteur and his collaborator, Julie, Anna, they've been to Intar on a number of times, and we've managed to |
| 2:03.8 | connect them with a lot of amazing activists around the world. So that's been a really interesting |
| 2:10.4 | connection and an important one, and it's continuing. Hopefully we'll be able to do more |
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