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I come to this project from a number of different perspectives. I have been a family therapist for most of my life, which is typically aligned with critical perspectives to mental health, particularly questioning the validity of a dominant medical model in favour of one that looks at social construction and relationships. It is from this tradition that I have come to be deeply dissatisfied with mainstream mental health practices, both now and in the past. Going back to my 20's however, my first job was as a special educator deinstitutionalizing Collaroy Hospital and supporting the community integration of people with intellectual disabilities. Lately as an academic I have been involved in a number of projects that can roughly be seen as critical; open dialogue, decolonising clinical psychology, climate psychology and other things. https://www.remindinghistories.net/janetmeagher daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1644824611095-M2M8D3CESXUTMK1FPWEG/Image+1.+Janet+Meagher.jpg Janet Meagher - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/18f8e47d-db2c-43cc-b084-2f61fced3977/Image+2.+Green+esky.jpg Janet Meagher - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.remindinghistories.net/gemma-lucy-smart daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1637725560968-0Z2GE7L0S78CEV25CDU8/Gemma+Smart.jpg Gemma Lucy Smart - Gemma Lucy Smart I am an academic and writer with a strong background in research and ethics. Currently a PhD researcher at The University of Sydney working on the history of critical psychiatry in Australia and its relation to new religious movements and spirituality. I am Sessional Academic and my background is in Environmental Science and Human Geography. In 2019 I completed a MSc by research in Philosophy of Psychiatry on the proposed Psychiatric category 'Internet Gaming Disorder'. I am also a nature based Pagan and Druid. https://www.remindinghistories.net/ruah-grace daily 0.75 2022-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/db9c75f3-58c2-4a0a-ad7c-ad9bacb783fb/ruahbioface.jpg Ruah Grace - Ruah Grace My chosen name is Ruah Grace (Rua in my second language Maori means two. Ruah in the ancient Hebrew means breath, wind, air and Spirit) I am two spirits. My pronouns are they/them or She/Her. My surname Grace is summed up in the great theological treatise of the U2 song called “Grace”. I am also a Lived Experienced Advocate, Researcher, Indigenous Maori (connected by blood to the tribes of Ngati Awa, Te Arawa and Ngapuhi), Irish, Queer, Transfemme, Pan/Demi Romantic, Relationship Anarchist, Writer, Artist, Musician and one of the mystical and beloved children of The Great Mother/The Divine Feminine. My passion is to advocate for, facilitate with and co-create “Listening Tribes” . Listening Tribes are the spaces that kindred others are called to that are conducive to birthing and manifesting possibilities. I call members of these ‘Listening Tribes’ the ‘sent ones’ ‘Listening Tribes’ for me are about ‘deep listening’, the mutual brave-hearted willingness to gracefully confront disempowering paradigms and the courage as a tribe to lead (with vulnerability) into ways of being that proclaim and celebrate our beautiful, vital, shared essence so that transformation has every opportunity to make its way through the soil of our our lives and flower into the worlds of others. https://www.remindinghistories.net/holly-kemp daily 0.75 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/529c5b5a-31fc-47e3-8a75-12e2c2561d0b/Holly.jpg Holly Kemp - Holly Kemp I am Holly, a queer, poly, femme, semi-professional feeler of big feelings. I have a lived experience of mental distress, a passion for justice, an appetite for dialogue, big love for the natural world and growing food and flowers. I work as a Lived Experience researcher in a couple of research teams at the University of Sydney and as a Peer Support Worker in a couple of clinical teams in the public mental health system. I got involved in coproduced research and service delivery because I wanted to see more lived experience perspectives involved… after all as mental health service users we arguably have the most ‘skin in the game’! I want to support the move from people with psychiatric labels being the subjects of research, to being participants. And I think having people with lived experience as colleagues inside research teams makes this more possible, lending symbolic value (nothing about us without us!) but also plenty of pragmatic expertise that comes from first person knowledge about what it can be like to experience mental distress, sanism, oppression and navigating mental health systems. I am so grateful to be part of this research team and to be able to learn from our history; what innovations have been tried, what worked, what didn’t, and according to who. I could not think of a better way to hone my own theory of change a sculpt a vision for a just mental health system.... So far I'm working towards one that puts an end to involuntary treatment, enables unlimited access to free therapy for survivors of trauma, and establishes peer run respites and other alternatives to hospital. I want there to be an abundance of hearing voices groups and alternatives to suicide peer support groups and open dialogue mobile crisis teams so there are options for people to understand and recover from mental distress if the psychiatric/biomedical worldview doesn’t feel helpful to them. These are the hope stories I have found so far and I'm still on the hunt for more! https://www.remindinghistories.net/hans-pols daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1637725996594-KKDIO7X1RSOIN4YM3NDC/Hans+photo.jpg Hans Pols - Hans Pols Maybe it is because I grew up near a mental hospital. Maybe it is because my father worked in the out-patient clinic of that mental hospital. Or maybe it is the frequent discussions between my aunt, an orthodox psychoanalyst, and my father, an eclectic whatever that sparked my interest to become a historian of psychiatry and mental health care. I have been particularly interested in psychiatry and mental health outside mental hospitals. I wrote a dissertation on the highly idealistic American (and, later, international) mental health movement and their ideals to provide treatment in the community, set up prevention through workplaces and schools, and to create a better society where the prevalence of mental illness would be greatly reduced. Because colonial psychiatry became fashionable among historians of medicine, I then investigated the history of colonial psychiatry in the Dutch East Indies. I started to participate in discussions on mental health care in Indonesia and how it could be improved. This inspired a new research project, in which I interviewed psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health nurses, consumers of mental health care, and many others about mental health care in Indonesia today and the near future. I then realised that I knew more about mental health care outside (and inside) mental hospitals in the Netherlands, the USA, and Indonesia than I did about Australia. I am currently busy to remedy this. https://www.remindinghistories.net/robyn-dunlop daily 0.75 2022-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1637726079402-NVR9F8J55CRQX0LZITK2/Robyn+Profile+with+fam.jpg Robyn Dunlop - Robyn Dunlop I’m a writer, grounded by and attached to my lovely family. I’m currently working on a PhD at the University of Newcastle, researching histories of community and mental health in the second half of the twentieth century, supervised by Professor Catharine Coleborne and Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Petersen. This extends my previous work as an institutional historian, and in the community sector, and builds on an earlier doctorate on representing traumatic pasts. I love that feeling when you find something unexpectedly. https://www.remindinghistories.net/georgia-valis-1 daily 0.75 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/7a18d16b-64ac-4049-87ce-2bc7a18067fc/ggv123.JPG Georgia Valis - Georgia Valis I am a researcher and teacher at Sydney university, with a background working in community health. My contribution to the project is a focus on the role of cultural identity in shaping mental health experiences, and locating voices from new and emerging communities through Australia’s history. My Honours thesis highlighted how experiencing mental illness and the psychiatric system was different, and at times more difficult, for some individuals and their families who migrated from Europe to Australia during the 1950s to 1980s, compared to those who were born in Australia. Two years into the project, I remain excited and proud to be an active member of this diverse and dynamic research group, working with service users and researchers with lived experienced, academic researchers and their students, psychiatrists and psychologists to write (and hopefully learn from) the history outside mental hospitals. I’m hopeful that through our process of coproduction, lived experience perspectives will meaningfully shape research findings as they have our research methodologies, and that the stories we come to tell are more representative, and more accurate because of this. https://www.remindinghistories.net/carla-and-lewis daily 0.75 2022-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/0e6bbc4b-c17d-45d4-80a3-1b8e912687d1/Carla.png Carla & Lewis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/51364aed-b363-4e34-bcab-d943902718c7/Lewis.jpg Carla & Lewis - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.remindinghistories.net/meg-smith daily 0.75 2022-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/efded15c-8c3b-41ad-903f-f96411876f59/Meg+Smith+40+years+ago.jpg Meg Smith - Make it stand out Meg Smith 40 years ago https://www.remindinghistories.net/pala daily 0.75 2022-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/27d25239-a221-4991-b82f-6ed110aa013d/The+PALA+poster+ii.jpg PALA - Make it stand out PALA: Alternatives to Psychiatry https://www.remindinghistories.net/brian-stagoll daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/6b0762bd-0616-4b83-adc2-2d295485013c/Brian+Stagoll.png Brian Stagoll Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don’t criticize What you can’t understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin’ Please get out of the new one If you can’t lend your hand For the times they are a-changin’ (Bob Dylan, 1964) https://www.remindinghistories.net/asha-zappa-1 daily 0.75 2022-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/8cdb50df-f8a9-42ba-9f06-6132f13bdd93/ASHAZAPPApicforwebsitebio.jpg Asha Zappa - Asha Zappa I’m Asha, my pronouns are xie/xer or they/them. I’m a registered Art Therapist, researcher, lived experience expert, and occasional performer, with an interest in the way communities use creativity as part of collective healing. Much of my research has focused on Art Therapy with trans and gender independent clients and examines the potential for Art Therapy to disrupt traditional (oppressive) models of psychiatry. I am fascinated by the way that art and creativity have formed part of the mental health consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement, and how creativity allows us to speak back to the medical model on our own terms. I’m a fat activist and much of my own art, particularly performance, focuses on body liberation. I also coordinate and host the “Mad Pride” concerts as part of Sydney Mardi Gras, which hosts a range of performers with lived experiences of mental ill-health. I play Dungeons and Dragons, and feel the urge to mention this wherever possible – including biographies where it may not be entirely appropriate. https://www.remindinghistories.net/consumer-groups-and-t-communities daily 0.75 2022-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647073080256-MCBKI3PBNXNWJXLABIHO/The+PALA+poster.jpg Consumer Groups and Therapeutic Communities https://www.remindinghistories.net/samantha-baker daily 0.75 2022-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/2994b4b1-9510-4bcc-8b58-258db25dee87/sambakerlarge4web.jpg Samantha Baker - Samantha Baker I am an honours student and research assistant at the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. I have a background in psychology and media-communications. I have been working on this project over the past year, and I have aimed to immerse myself in the lived experience narratives of the consumer, survivor, ex-patient movement through transcribing interviews and multimedia work. My current focus is on the intersection of the community mental health movement and queer liberation. My honours thesis explores this topic by highlighting the history of Australia's first refuge for transgender women https://www.remindinghistories.net/eloise daily 0.75 2022-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1e10f117-14a8-4bd9-b658-92a85b3b7995/Eloise+small.jpg Eloise - Eloise Watts I am an Honours student within the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. I am currently investigating the intersection of community mental health initiatives, consumer advocacy, and the women’s liberation movement in Sydney. My thesis centres around the radical and innovative Louisa Lawson House for women which operated in Arncliffe in the 1980s and 90s. Whilst I originally studied psychology and believed that clinical psychology was the path for me, this changed when I began to engage with perspectives that are critical of the dominant biomedical model of psychiatric treatment. I found that many of these criticisms resonated with me, especially those coming from consumer advocates, and I have been absorbed in this critical discourse ever since. This shift in focus brought me to this project where I am delighted to be working alongside this passionate group of researchers. https://www.remindinghistories.net/catharine-coleborne daily 0.75 2022-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/13c7f5cc-9f19-4b48-9d5f-7c3f2e319698/Coleborne+photo+1.jpg Catharine Coleborne - Catharine Coleborne Trained as a historian, I have been writing about aspects of the history of madness and institutions for around 20 years. I was drawn to this because I was interested in the way people talked about experiences of mental breakdown in the past, and how their words were then put into clinical language. I have written about that in my book Madness in the Family (2010) which is about Australia and New Zealand. My earlier scholarship had a focus on the nineteenth-century hospitals in Australia and New Zealand which were shaped by the processes of colonialism. My work has raised questions about how institutions reflected colonial society’s anxieties and preoccupations, and how in turn these societies in formation produced institutional populations. In particular, my research has sought to address the interactions of patients, families and the cultures of institutions. Over time, I have also increasingly been drawn into more contemporary projects about mental health which have presented new and different challenges. For the past decade or more, historians and cultural theorists have examined the problem of ‘madness’, stimulated by the pace and scope of deinstitutionalisation, mental health advocacy, failures of policy and practice, the action research mode of disability studies, and the rise of the mad movement. My own forays into the scholarship of ‘mad’ histories are necessarily limited due to my in-between status as an academic historian, rather than an insider. It was during my academic work in New Zealand that my ideas about the present context for writing the histories of mental illness began to shape new research questions and directions. I am grateful to the team of mental health professionals, postgraduate students, and colleagues who helped me grow new ideas in that context. I thank especially mental health advocate Mary O’Hagan, who generously offered her time to me. An abbreviated interview with Mary was published as Mary O’Hagan, ‘Madness in New Zealand’ in Asylum: The Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry, 24:2 (2017). My international colleagues in histories of mental illness, health and institutions have been profoundly important to my intellectual development. Colleagues in Canada and the UK have always been ready to offer critical and stimulating feedback. My role in this team is to share thinking about oral history interviewing, to help write pieces and provide intellectual support, to be part of some interview conversations, and to find ways to bring my own insights as a historian to the wider team. https://www.remindinghistories.net/featured-artists daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647789331569-XRTPV6C1BB8BO3MHQR7Q/MC1.png Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647788382676-T7H0IS5PDMHQ10AJKKTS/seaflowerdetail2_GCsm.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647785210115-4J6ST0XBWYTMG5VR89TN/fishingforlight_GC.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647789924439-7NE73159H6H8QATP377B/IMG_3864.jpeg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647784038053-F95YWRUXB5BLPXJPCTP4/MC2.png Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647788665178-66DHLCA9GL2FXV7HX9ZK/FB_GC.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647788592555-LIHV5RDB2LNLW8YRFDB1/lpondTR06_8_GC.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647786220279-RD1WF08HXBGKUF4FW7KJ/lotusbouquetwGC.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647793981342-8VTOQS6VDAQ5MFGMU2YM/DW-140603_DSC1094.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647794049197-9Z2J41AHJGLIPLGDSET0/DW-140603_DSC1096.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647794207522-8U05QJ5A9SKPUL1Y30Q8/DW-140603_DSC1102.jpg Featured Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1647794285420-HXLX64JEP6LR60PDF0WZ/DW-141013_D865773.jpg Featured Artists https://www.remindinghistories.net/anthony-harris daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/1652041616015-CSVHVB6ZIVUW4RAKWXWV/Anthony+Harris.JPG Anthony Harris - Anthony Harris I have worked as a psychiatrist for over thirty years mostly across western Sydney usually in community positions but also in teaching and research. I grew into my professional role while some of the battles that form the basis of this project were being fought and the pattern of care that came out of deinstitutionalisation crystallised and then hardened into its present maladaptive form. At the same time, I was active in the community mental health movement being a member, group leader, board member and then chair of a leading non-government organisation, the Schizophrenia Fellowship of New South Wales - now One Door - an organisation that has always put the lived experience of a person with a mental illness at the heart of its work. The multiple perspectives that the project is bringing to this area is helping me better understand not only the history but also the present and the way mental health services should evolve.” https://www.remindinghistories.net/reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/872feedd-dca6-46af-899d-89f4f931cb3a/Image+1..jpg Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/c90bbc0f-9d2d-42ca-ba54-12043c09e928/Meeting+bean+bags.jpg Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/b4ea5d2d-c5b1-4320-b84a-ded4e0849889/PIC+1.jpg Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/5bcc1d0f-6942-454f-8e04-834f20d0e221/1977+Student+Psychiatric+Nurse+Graeme+Curry%29.JPG Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/8631e962-33ce-4b31-bd6d-8c0e3477aa1f/Lyn-Mahboub.jpg Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/237c0c69-3555-4b61-9752-78b662b5cbfe/Ramjan.jpg Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/b8e135fd-ca67-4528-8ab3-ca541148239a/Matina.jpg Reflections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/2db7e8c2-d8cf-45b4-bc8f-386ebc4d918b/person.jpg Reflections https://www.remindinghistories.net/meagher-reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/73f1b619-a0ae-4098-aa2d-fcaccaece25d/Image+1..jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/189da5a1-255e-4d1b-ba6d-e0f1baae9df4/Image+2.png https://www.remindinghistories.net/healy-reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/50c96621-6801-492f-b90f-352ce9a1a102/Melville+Clinic+Annexe.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/5d4cd686-3632-4af8-86d7-ff3c18470bc7/PICT0008+%281%29.jpg https://www.remindinghistories.net/leggatt-reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/b4ea5d2d-c5b1-4320-b84a-ded4e0849889/PIC+1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/afa6fb6b-4589-42df-9d63-7a3829c85308/PIC+2.jpg https://www.remindinghistories.net/mahboubreflections daily 0.75 2023-09-14 https://www.remindinghistories.net/new-page daily 0.75 2023-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/d552f53b-2b39-4ff2-a91b-201a19b0bada/Ramjan.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/e02b6bee-f895-4f35-91aa-42172a7bb2f2/Ramjan+young.jpg https://www.remindinghistories.net/curry-reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/af194af3-7c8b-4edd-a4b2-60cd16e7a39e/1971+SSF+Brookfield+Graeme+Curry+2.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/5bcc1d0f-6942-454f-8e04-834f20d0e221/1977+Student+Psychiatric+Nurse+Graeme+Curry%29.JPG https://www.remindinghistories.net/pentes-reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/0ebab586-3026-4ba4-af50-51323f52c06d/Matina.jpg https://www.remindinghistories.net/queensland-reflections daily 0.75 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618b2a6fcdfee52093f8299a/b0917cae-25f6-4c26-b1c5-cd20999a5e20/person.jpg https://www.remindinghistories.net/champ-precious-threat daily 0.75 2023-09-20