- Member of the Institute
of Women’s Studies and Gender
Studies
- Member of the Transformative Learning
Centre
- Core member of the Centre for
Integrative Anti-Racism Studies
Visit the website
for her novel,
The
House on Lippincott.
Research Interests
Popular education, theatre of the oppressed, theatre for development, qualitative
research, institutional ethnography, working with psychiatric
survivors, global feminism, feminist
therapy; violence against women,
working with trauma survivors, transgenerational
trauma, Holocaust studies, anti-racism
education, fascism and anti-fascism,
social movements, use of the arts
in adult education and social movements,
community organizing in relation
to the movements of disenfranchised
populations (people who are homeless,
people who have been imprisoned,
psychiatric survivors, people who
use illicit drugs.)
Courses
AEC1101H: Program Planning in Adult
Education
AEC1405H: Introduction to Qualitative
Research (Part I)
AEC1406H: Introduction to Qualitative
Research (Part II)
AEC1408H: Working with Survivors
of Trauma
AEC1409H: Creative Empowerment Work
with the Disenfranchised: Healing
and Collective Action
Recent Publications for
Dr. Bonnie Burstow
Invisible Theatre, Ethics, and the Adult Educator,” International Journal of Lifelong Education, Vol. 27, no. 3, 2008: pp. 273-288
Understanding and Ending ECT: A Feminist Imperative, Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 15, nos. 2 and 3, 2006: pp. 115-122.
The House on Lippincott (a novel
about a Holocaust survivor family)
Toronto: Inanna Press, 2006.
Electroshock as a Form of Violence
Against Women, Violence Against
Women, Vol. 12, No. 4, April 2006,
pp-372-392.
Radikalna Feministicka Terapija
(translation of Radical Feminist
Therapy, Gordana Popovic, trans.).
Zagreb: Centre for Women War Victims
in Zagreb, 2005.
Feminist Antipsychiatry
Praxis: Women and the Movement(s)
In Women, Madness and the Law: A
Feminist Reader, eds. Wendy Chan,
Dorothy Chunn, and Robert Menzies,
London: Glasshouse Press, 2005,
pp. 245-258
A Critique of Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder and the DSM, Journal of
Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 45,
No. 4, 2005, pp. 429-445.
Progressive Psychotherapy and the
Psychiatric Survivor Movement, Journal
of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 44,
No. 2, 2004, pp. 141-154.
Toward a Radical Understanding
of Trauma and Trauma Work, Violence
Against Women, Vol. 10, No. 11,
2003, pp. 1293-1317.
Surviving and Thriving by Becoming
more Groupuscular: The Case of the
Heritage Front. Patterns of Prejudice,
Vol. 37, No. 4, 2003: pp. 415-428.
From Pills to Praxis: Psychiatric
Survivors and Adult Education. The
Canadian Journal for the Study of
Adult Education, Vol. 17, May 2003,
pp. 1-18.
A Radical Feminist therapy Perspective.
In Anti-Discriminatory Counselling
Practice, C. Lago & B. Smith,
Eds. London: Sage, 2003, pp. 68-74
Adult Basic Education for Psychiatric
Survivors: Survival Skills. Adult
Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary
Journal for Adult Literacy Educators,
Vol. 12, No. 2, Summer 2002, pp.
99-110.
Awards
David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (2011)
Friendly Spike Award for Lifetime Activism (2005)
Constance E. Hamilton Award on the Status of Women, City of Toronto (2003)
Rebel with a Cause Award, Elizabeth Frye Society (2000)
Field Activities
- Antipsychiatry activism (demonstrations,
deputations, antipsychiatry addresses,
making of antipsychiatry video (When
Women End Up in These Horrible Places),
antipsychiatry theatre)
- Antifascism and anti-racism activism
(speeches, demonstrations, deputations)
- feminist therapy
- Supervision and training of counsellors
and therapists
- Organizational as well as clinical
consultation for a number of counselling
organizations
- Writing Novels
Links
Transformative Learning Centre
OISE/UT
http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca |
