Interview with Don Weitz

Program Title: Prison Justice Day 2010 - Don Weitz on Anti-Psychiatry
Description: Don Weitz speaks with Anabel Khoo on the links between psychiatry and prison systems in Canada. This interview was featured as part of CHRY's focus programming on Prison Justice Day, August 10th, 2010.

Don Weitz is an antipsychiatry activist and psychiatric survivor. He is on the Executive of the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA); board member of Psychiatric Survivor Archives-Toronto; co-editor of Shrink Resistant: The Struggle Against Psychiatry in Canada, and host/producer of Antipsychiatry Radio on CKLN in Toronto. He is currently writing a book on his activism including resistance against electroshock. Don is also an outspoken advocate of the abolition of the psychiatric and prison systems.

For more info on the Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault (CAPA) - http://capa.oise.utoronto.ca

Host(s): Anabel Khoo
Featured Speakers/Guests: Don Weitz

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