Program Type:
Lectures, Presentations, & Author EventsAge Group:
Adult- Registration is required for this event.
- Registration will close on July 2, 2025 @ 6:30pm.
Program Description
Description
The powerful memoir of one woman’s experience with psychiatric diagnoses and medications, and her journey to discover herself outside the mental health industry. Weaving Delano’s medical records and doctors’ notes with an investigation of modern psychiatry and illuminating research on the drugs she was prescribed, Unshrunk questions the dominant, rarely critiqued role that the American mental health industry, and the pharmaceutical industry in particular, plays in shaping what it means to be human.
This talk will be in conversation with another speaker...TBD.
About the Author
Laura Delano is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a charitable organization that she founded to help people make more informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses and drugs. She is a leading voice in the international movement of people who’ve left behind the medicalized, professionalized offerings of the mental health system to build something different. Laura works with individuals and families around the world seeking guidance and support for the withdrawal journey and life post-psychiatry. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut with her husband and children.
Registration required. Registration opens one month before the program at 7:00pm.
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