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Interview with David Oaks. EM: You are a psychiatric survivor human rights activist. Can you tell us a little bit about what that means? DO: I am a proud psychiatric survivor. After encountering ...

As people in recovery working with others in the psychiatric survivors movement, we know that people often leave these institutions having experienced more trauma than when they first entered.

I am recognized internationally for my advocacy and training work in the psychiatric survivors movement and as a leader for new social responses to what gets called madness and psychosis.