ISPS-US's Executive Director, Leah Giorgini, recently did a TEDx talk, titled "The Danger of a Single Story in Psychiatry," at TEDx Lafayette. The recording is now online. Through sharing her story through the mental health system and beyond, Leah makes a case for moving away from reductive approaches and understandings of psychosis to one that acknowledges a person's full story and context.
When we reduce people to being a broken brain, we're saying that they are broken. Well, people don't break. Objects break."
"But I wasn't crazy, my life was. And my brain wasn't broken, the system was."
View the recording here.
