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Call for Submissions – Asylum Magazine Toronto Issue

Toronto Issue: Mad Activism, Resistance and Transformation… The UK-based Asylum Magazine – an International Magazine for Democtratic Psychiatry, Psychology and Community Development – is seeking submissions for a special Toronto-themed issue.  The local editorial committee is looking for feature articles, provocative essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry, humour, artwork and photography that focuses on the broad theme: Read more





The Cat’s Tale by Phil Thomas

It was a sunny September afternoon, one of those days that trick you into believing that there will never be another winter. As I stood on the doorstep with the approved social worker and GP, the sun’s warmth beat down on my back. The last place I wanted to be that Friday was doing a mental health act assessment, but the duty social worker had contacted me that morning, and there I was.

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