Madness Canada

Madness Canada is an activist site that supports academic-community collaborations. It is a place to learn about real stories, mad history, survivor culture, mental health, and survivor-led mental health curriculum. This project is housed at York University, Canada. 

View our feature film, The Inmates are Taking Over the Asylum, on Vancouver's MPA (Mental Patients Association). MPA was formed by ex-patients and survivors in 1970-71 as a grassroots response to deinstitionalization and tragic gaps in community mental health MPA provided homes, work and a sense of belonging and self-determination to ex-patients. Working collaboratively with academic scholars and talented young artists and film-makers, a group of early MPA members created this 36-minute documentary. Provocative, passionate and engaging, our film has something important to say about social justice, community-building and mental health today.