Due to a number of factors we have been forced to cancel the 2009 edition of Are We Mad? We are actively planning to ensure that 2010 is a great success.

 

 

The treatment of the mentally ill in Canada is a complex social phenomenon with ramifications in the fields of medicine, law, sociology and others. This conference will bring together academics, practitioners and consumers of mental health services to contemplate and criticize the forces at work in the field of mental health and the effects they have on individuals in the system. In particular the conference will examine the medical model of mental illness, the interactions between law and psychiatry, the growing public interest in mental health issues, the stigma that continues to surround mental illness, and the power structures that underlie mental health.