- Phoenix Rising - Its Birth and
Death, by Don Weitz, Border/Llines, Fall, 1990.
- Vol. 1. "Myths of Mental Illness" by
Carla McKague and Don Weitz.
- Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring, 1980:
Parkdale boarding house mess; computer therapy; Valium: the miracle drug
that isn't.
- Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1980:
Prison psychiatry; SmithKline boycott; Blindness: more than meets the eye.
- Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1980: The
death of Aldo Alviani.
- Vol. 1, No. 4, Winter 1981: Women
and psychiatry.
- Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1981: From
Kingston Psychiatric to City Hall– "Don't Spyhole Me," (Journal) by David
Reville; Update on Kingston Psychiatric Hospital; Access to medical records;
Profiles - People First; Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 2, No. 2, Summer 1981: Kids
and Psychiatry; Thistletown; Kids and the Law; Incest; Drugging - Ritalin;
Annotated Antipsychiatry Bibliography; Psychiatric Inmates Liberation
Directory; Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1981: The
Anti-Psychiatry Movement; History of the Movement; 9th International
Conference (Cleveland); International Year of Disabled Persons; Drugs;
Canadian Groups; Profiles - Kendal Russell; Book reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 3, No. 1, Aug./Sept 1982:
Tenth International Conference (Toronto); Davis drug death/inquest;
Paraldehyde; Class bias in psychiatry; Profiles– Steve Stapleton; Book
Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 3, No. 2, November 1982: The
Housing Crisis; Housing, Not Warehousing; Boarding Homes; Patient-run
residence; housing facts; Declaration of Principles; Shock Death - Lynette
Miller; Tardive Dyskinesia Epidemic; Profiles– Margaret Gibson; File Review–
"Titicott Follies'; Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1983:
Schizophrenia, Exploding the Myth; Personal stories by ex-inmates; The CIA
and Mind Control (excepts from book by John Marks); Moditen (Prolixin);
Consent to treatment; Mental Health and Violence Against Women (feminist
statement ex-inmate women); Profiles– David Oaks; Shock Doctor List
(Canadian); Annotated Anti-Psychiatry Bibliography; Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 3, No. 4, Spring 1983: Death
by Psychiatry, Part I; Report on 8 deaths in NY State psychiatric
institutions by Allen Markman; Profiles– Hope Scoville, Phyllis Moss; On Our
Own: Self-Help Model; A Draft Bill of Rights for Psychiatric Inmates in
Canada (On Our Own); Neuroleptics; List of Anti-Psychiatry groups; Book
Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 4, No. 1, Summer 1983: Death
by Psychiatry, Part II; Deaths in New York; 11th International Conference;
Mental Health Act; Demonstration against APA (NYC) Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 1983: Mad
With The Truth; Interview with Samuel Delaney on Art and Madness;
Withdrawing from Psychiatric Drugs (reprint from Dr. Caligari's Psychiatric
Drugs); Interview with mental health worker; Electroshock; International
Conference on Prison Abolition; Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 4, No. 3/4, April 1984
(Double Issue): Shock Supplement; Interview with Richard Kotuk; Out of the
Ashes (new creative section); Shock case; Secret Brainwashing Experiments
(5th Estate Transcript); Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 5, No. 1, Feb. 1985: Women
and Psychiatry; Journal/drawings by Nira Fleischmann; Interview with Carol
Stubbs; Still Sane (exerpts from book by S. Gilhooly and P. Blackbridge);
Therapy, sexism and non-sexist alternatives by Dr. Bonnie Burstow; "Women
and Shock Treatment" by Paula Fine (reprint); Psychiatric malpractice by
Greta H. Nemiroff; Valium addiction (personal story); International Mad
Movement; Interviews with ex-inmate women; Book Reviews; Poetry; Out of the
Ashes.
- Vol. 5, No. 2/3, Aug. 1985
(Double Issue): Charter of Rights; People's Charter (reprint); Charter and
the psychiatric inmate; Institutional injustice; Charter challenges
involuntary committal; Fighting emergency committals (Theresa Lussa case);
Shock and the Law; Voting Rights; Charter and sheltered workshops;
Declaration of Principles (reprint); Italy closing psychiatric institutions;
Brief history of psychiatry; Shock survivors' testimony; Shock doc list;
Psychiatric Inmates Liberation Directory; Valium; Maggie's Bag; Book
Reviews; Poetry; Out of the Ashes.
- Vol. 5, No. 4, Dec. 1985:
Celebration Issue; Personal Stories; Riviere des Prairies torture
(Montreal); Interview with Dr. Lee Coleman; 13th International Conference
(Vermont); Maggie's Bag; Book Reviews; Poetry; Out of the Ashes.
- Vol. 6, No. 1, June 1986:
Canadian Brainwashing Victims; A psychiatric holocaust - Dr. Cameron's
brainwashing experiments; Canadian victims' case; "What's your excuse
Grace?"; Critique of psychiatric patient advocates in Ontario; Maggie's Bag;
Book Reviews; Poetry; Out of the Ashes.
- Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1986: The
Anti-Psychiatry Movement; State of the Anti-Psychiatry Movement in
California ; Declaration of Principles from 10th International Conference
(reprint); Cooper Report on CIA Victims; Oak Ridge and the Hucker Report;
Women Survivors of Psychiatry (Toronto Conference); Updated list of shock
doctors; anti-psychiatry group list; Book Review; Poetry; Out of the Ashes.
- Vol. 6, No. 3, Dec. 1986: The
Best of PHOENIX RISING; Mostly excerpts– back issues. Schizophrenia,
Exploding the Myth; The Tardive Dyskinesia Epidemic; Psychiatry's Reign of
Error; Psychiatric Treatment and your Right to Decide; Shock and the Law;
Psychobable; Book Reviews; Poetry; Out of the Ashes.
- Vol. 6, No. 4, June 1987:
Shelter: A Matter of Life and Death; Drina Joubert inquest; John Dimun
inquest; Hostels; Boarding Homes; Roomers Protest; "Rule Thrity-Six House";
Zoning; Women & State workshop; Shock Lies; Drug Ads; Oak Ridge Demo;
Ontario Mental Health Act amendments (Bill 7, Bill 190) Poetry; Book
Reviews; Survivors Stories.
- Vol. 7, No. 1, Oct. 1987: Housing
Options; "Getting off the Street"– interview with Alf Jackson; "Protection
for Roomers'; "A Boarding House Renewed" (Channon Court); Interviews with
three On Our Own members; "Getting Walter Out of Queen St. ; "Big Brother's
Place" (critique of a halfway house); Linda Andre's shock case; Shock demo;
Shock lies; Bill 190 ; Testimony on Bill 190 ; Book Reviews; Poetry.
- Vol. 7, No. 2, Nov. 1987: The
Advocacy Game. Critique of the Ontario goverment's advocacy report; No
Advocacy in New Zealand; Community Advocacy; Psychiatry in Manitoba; Being
There for Each Other; Protest against CPA; Psychiatry Serves the Ruling
Class; FDA denies CAT scan petitioners; The Chemical Gag.
- Vol. 7, No. 3, Dec. 1987: Out of
the Ashes; Self Portrait; I Never Promised You a Nom de Plume; Movie Night;
Warriors; Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Class Jacket; The Loony Bin;
Appointing substitute decision-maker if "incompetent"– Form 44; Book Review;
Poetry.
- Vol. 7, No. 4, May 1988: Fighting
for Our Freedom; NYC vs. Joyce Brown; Challenging New Zealand's Mental
Health Act; Dr. Breggin Speaks out Against Psychiatric Drugs; Banging Heads;
Brainwashing case update; Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs; Nazi Doctors.
- Vol. 8, No. 1, Oct. 1988: A Close
Up Look at the Enemy; Report on 14th International Conference of Law and
Mental Health; Ex-inmates Challenge APA; Toronto Protesters Arrested For
Distributing Shock Info; Shock Machine Classifications; Merril Dow
Propaganda; Advocacy ; Network; personal stories; Poetry.
- Vol. 8, No. 2, May 1989: Prison
Issue: Voices From Inside; Personal stories by prisoners; Media coverup of
Oak Ridge; Prison Justice Day; Electroshock Conference in NY; Drugs and
Consent; R.A.P. demo; Resources for Prisoners; Network; Shrinkwatch.
- Vol. 8, No. 3/4, July 1990
(Double Issue) Gay Lesbian Issue; Personal Stories; AIDS and Psychiatry,
interview with Dr.Szasz; Interview with Dr. Bonnie Burstow; Psychiatric
Drugs - A Co-factor in AIDS?; History of Psychiatric Homophobia; Montreal
PUN Conference; Shrinkwatch; Clarke Institute Protest; Prozac; Dr. Peter
Breggin on Psychiatric Drugs.
