Beyond Bedlam

Contemporary Women Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out

Plot

The 25 voices loud with anger in Beyond Bedlam are Canadian, English, Mexican, American; they belong to artists, writers, musicians, academics, blacks, whites, Native Americans, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, the poor, the middle-class, lesbians, heterosexuals, survivors of incest. They belong to women who have lived through being committed to psychiatric institutions, often against their will, medicated, put in seclusion, put in physical restraints, given electroshock treatments, even raped by staff in the institutions. Many of the contributors are now politically active in the psychiatric survivor movement.