Beyond Them and Us: Finding Common Ground : by Julia Macintosh
Between Them and Us: Finding Common Ground
Asylum Magazine (Volume 32, no 1) – Spring 2025
The Spring 2025 edition of Asylum magazine is out now.
Asylum 32.1 is a special issue on surveillance, guest edited by Stop Oxevision.
Stop Oxevision is a survivor-led group campaigning against the use of Oxevision, a video-based surveillance technology which is being used in some psychiatric hospitals. Read more
Guest Editorial: Stop Oxevision
Welcome to this ‘surveillance’ special issue of Asylum Magazine, put together by the survivor-led campaign group Stop Oxevision.
Committed: An Insider View on Czech Mental Heath Institutions by Jitka Nelb Sinecka
As a result of the mania likely developed from anti-seizure medications that the doctors loaded me with, before and after a sudden brain tumor surgery, I suddenly found myself committed to a psychiatric ward.
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Autism and BPD: Addressing the harms of misdiagnosis by Anon
I was diagnosed as autistic in my mid-forties. This understanding has provided me with so much clarity about my life. At the same time, I feel bereft as this knowledge has come far too late for me. I found my late diagnosis both illuminating and devastating.
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Antinormality Club by Anna Fielding
Anna Fielding explains the background and principles behind a new peer support group