Bonnie Burstow

Biography

Populations with respect to and in alliance with whom Dr. Bonnie does ongoing research include: psychiatric survivors, people who are homeless, the imprisoned, undocumented populations, non-prescription drugs users, and sex workers. She is a world renowned critic of institutional psychiatry and information about her very extensive research in this area may be found at www.bizomadness.blogspot.ca. More generally Dr. Burstow's research interests include popular education, anarchist theory, qualitative research (with special emphasis on political informed methodologies like institutional ethnography and critical discourse analysis), working with psychiatric survivors, global feminism, feminist therapy; violence against women, working with trauma survivors, transgenerational trauma, transnational disability, Holocaust studies, anti-racism education, fascism and anti-fascism, social movements, use of the arts in adult education and social movements. She is also interested in the psychology of disenfranchised populations (people who are homeless, people who have been imprisoned, psychiatric survivors, people who use illicit drugs). Populations with respect to and in alliance with whom Dr. Bonnie does ongoing research include: psychiatric survivors, people who are homeless, the imprisoned, undocumented populations, non-prescription drugs users, and sex workers. She is a world renowned critic of institutional psychiatry and information about her very extensive research in this area may be found at www.bizomadness.blogspot.ca. More generally Dr. Burstow's research interests include popular education, anarchist theory, qualitative research (with special emphasis on political informed methodologies like institutional ethnography and critical discourse analysis), working with psychiatric survivors, global feminism, feminist therapy; violence against women, working with trauma survivors, transgenerational trauma, transnational disability, Holocaust studies, anti-racism education, fascism and anti-fascism, social movements, use of the arts in adult education and social movements. She is also interested in the psychology of disenfranchised populations (people who are homeless, people who have been imprisoned, psychiatric survivors, people who use illicit drugs).

Research Interest

psychiatric survivors, people who are homeless, the imprisoned, undocumented populations, non-prescription drugs users, and sex workers.