Speaking

Laura has spoken across North America, Europe, and Latin America. In her talks, she discusses her personal journey into and out of the mental health system; the effects of psychiatric diagnoses and drugs on childhood and adolescence; taking and coming off psychiatric drugs, and more. To discuss bringing Laura to your community, organization, institution, or group for a talk, click on ‘Inquiries’ in the main menu.

 

Uploaded by ADisorder4Everyone on 2018-11-04.

Demedicalized, Reconnected, and Rehumanized: Towards a Future Beyond the Mental Health System 

This talk was given at the A Disorder 4 Everyone Conference in London, UK, on September 6th, 2018.

 

Coming Out the Other Side .. How Did It Happen? 2016 Mental Health Summit - August - Sedona, AZ http://www.MentalHealthCoalitionVV.org Laura Delano: Laura is a psychiatric liberation activist, writer, and community organizer. She entered the "mental health" system as a 13-year old and escaped it 14 years later, after accidentally stumbling upon Robert Whitaker's book, Anatomy of an Epidemic.

Coming Out the Other Side… How Did It Happen?

Laura spoke about “unbecoming” a psychiatric patient at this 2016 Mental Health Summit in Sedona, Arizona, USA.

 

The word "recovery" is heard a lot these days in the mental health system, but what does it really mean? Is it that a person "recovers from" a condition of some kind? Is it about finding "mental health recovery"? Or, could it perhaps be about "recovering" something that was actually lost, or even taken?

Recovering Myself: A Talk About Journeying Through the Mental Health System and Coming Back to Oneself

Laura gave this talk in Anchorage, Alaska in the Fall of 2015.

 

Leaving Psychiatric Labels and Drugs A conversation with the Swedish journalist Åsa Moberg and four women from four different countries; Olga Runciman from Denmark, Fia Backström from Sweden, Mette Ellingsdalen from Norway and Laura Delano from USA, about their own lived experiences of being labeled with different psychiatric diagnoses.

Leaving Psychiatric Labels and Drugs

Laura spoke on this panel at the 2015 Driving Us Crazy Film Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden.

 

Laura Delano plenary talk "Reclaiming Humanity: Building a Post-Psychiatry, Post Mental Health World" from 2014 UCLA/ISEPP Conference "Transforming Mad Science" in Los Angeles, CA. For more info please visit www.TransformingMadScience.com

Reclaiming Humanity: Building a Post-Psychiatry, Post Mental Health World

This talk was given at the 2014 annual International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry conference in Los Angeles, California, USA.